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VOLUME S7>-flo. 41
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1961
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Two Men Killed In Separate
Autlirtiioblle Accidents'In Area
Chapi^ral
Two yout^ w«r« ,UUid and
four perMHU injwed in two
Mpar«t«: tuto a'cpWentt In the
purbam-Oltapel HUl area thU
week. ■ ' ,.
Fatally injur«d ui i^if|iort Rd.
near Ciup«l (|1U Mi'Monday was
Thomaa Henry 18 ot
Oiapel Hill; ^.'.^ .^arlif !/^lton
qf Durham, a Coteui-
■Ion and w«s taken to. N' C.
lf«inorial Hospital A thlri^ youth
in the car, Willie C. Wee, 16
was shaken up.
^ JohnsM's ca^ ran out of con
trol as he waa ^riving on the air
port road and crashed into a deep
•fill. The car waa complet^ de-
were sehaiuled to M held Thurs
day at the Markham Chapel
, Church with tl^.Rtv, Gooch,
pastor officilting. f Burial was
scheduled for the Marram Chap
el CemetMY.
He is aurvive^ by his parents,
kack and Rota iohnson, a sister,
Mrs. LMla WilUaatii, and seven
brothers. . i
' In anather auto accident, an
18-yf^'--old youth waa inslarttly
killed when his pajch^ ear was
ttruek bead on by.; abotber car
on Brwin Rd. aboqi 8t20 a.m.
Sunday. . ‘ •
Kill^ was Jamas . Rtid, Rt. 1,
Durham. Injured was Mrs. Zet-
tie Garner Primoui, S3, 116 E.
Proctor St. and David Albern Mar-
See KILLED, pag» 6-A
Mother of TIMES MiiKr Dies
Program of
N. C. Baptist
Meet (Hitlined
RALEIGH—“Ot^ Go^ In These
Tiroes,” the thema tor the 94th
Annual Session ot ^a General
Baptist State ConvennOB of North
Carolina symbolizes th^ cq^cem
of the organization'f 380,000.inem
bers in making God koawn to
mankind.
The annual aesaion will be held
with the S«ndy |tun Baptist
Chuikh, Jacksonville, the Rev
erend E. W. Wpoteq, pastor, Oct
ober 30 - November 2t.
As usual, mess^ira represent
ing churches, unions, associa
tions, and other Baptist bodies
will come together for the 4-day
aission.
The program ^«^|iiittee has
drawn up a scHPiile' of ivients
designed to show fhroagh acr-
mons, addresses, and forumi how
Baptists can pr^pta (hid^a work.
The featured sermon Will be de
livered by Dr. ifarrisdn the
well-known miqifte^ ^. Wuhing-
ton, D. €.
A usual feature is “Shaw
Night,” which ifill abme this time
on Wednesday, I^^ember 1. The
Shaw Choir under the dit^tion
of Harry Gil-Si;nyth8 viH sender
music. Dr. W.!^ Strassop^, the
school’ji preside, Will '4«llver
the address.
The convention’s preaiderit. Dr.
R. M. Pitts, will address th^ body
See BAPTISTS, page !8-A
MRS. AUSTIN
Mrs. Carrie Johnson Austin,
mother of the CAROLINA TIMES
publisher, Louis Austin, died
Wednesday at the Reeves Con-
vakscent Ifome after a longtime
illness.
Funeral arrangements at press
time were incomplete.
Mrs. Austin had been hospital
ized for several days two weeks
ago and* was released to return
to the nursing home, She had
been in the nursing home ap
proximately two years.
A native of Edgecombe County,
Mrs. Austin was the daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Calvin
Johnsan.
She war married to the late
WiUiadi Lauia Austin who died
in 19^, They lived in BnfieW
until ttl9 *nd then moved to
Durham. FoHoWlng her husband’s
death, Mr*. Auitin lived with har
oldest Min Lbuls Austin.
Besides iier oldest son, Mrs.
Austin is sui^ived by three other
children, Miss Maude Nelda
Austin, a teacher at John Chalon-
er School, in Roanoke Rapids;
Jesse T. D. Austin of Jamaica,
L.I., N.Y.; and Lodius Austin.
Surviving also are three grand
children and dne great grand
child.
Envoys In NCC EirMt
A PLAQUE FOR ALLEN'S
PRESIDENT — Or. Howard
d*n( of Allan University, ac-
capt* a plaque from Rav. Mal-
vln C. Swann, paster of Saint
Joseph's A>A.E. Church dur
ing a program hcniBring tha
Alien prasidant ait Itia church
Sunday night. Dr. Wright was
a former member end official
'of the church before accepting
the pratldency of the Calum-
ia, S.. C. Schoel.
"Mr. T" Disappointed Again;
Found Only Two Winners Sat.
Mr. T. experienced another
frustrating day Saturday as he
was only able to give away $2.
He tried desperately to give
some good persons a hand full of
money, but it appeared as though
everybody had enough money last
week.
Mr. T. searched high and low,"
near and far for some winners,
but It just wasn’t his day. Thii
week he visited the Umstead-South^
St. area without much success,
iind them jumped all the way out
to Mutual Heights with even less
success.
On South' St., he found two $1
Winning the dollars were Mrs. Del
la Hedgepeth of lUl South St.
winners and Just missed another,
and Miss Maijorie Cameron, 1504
South St. Another Slouth St. mat
ron who had tlie lucky sticker
See “MR. T.",'page 6-A
Following preparations made
over the past several months by
a committee of Ipoal citizens and
. North Camlina College jjrofess-
ors, the 46th annual meeting of
the AsscciatlOin for Ahe Study of
Negro lifer and llistory |ets un
derway at NCC Thursday and con
tinue through Saturday.
The public is Invited.
Dr. Charles H. Wesley, presi
dent Of Centrckl State College,
Wilberforce, Ohio, and also presi
dent of the Association, will de
liver the opening address Thurs
day morning at 11 o’clock in the
B. N. Duke Auditorium.
Wesley will speak on “The Civil
War Centennial and the Negro
American.”
Wesley’s address, in accordance
with the conference theme will
highlight contributions to Ameri
can culture of the Negro in the
one hundred years since the Civil
War,
The overall theme is “One
Hundred Years of Fre^om, 1861-
1961: Old and New Frontiers.”
A feature presentation is the
banquet address Friday night at
8 o’clock by Arthur M. Schlesing-
er Jr., Harvard Professor of His
tory who is on leave as a special
assistant to President John F.
Kennedy.
Following Wesley’s opening ad
dress, the after noon sessions will
be devoted to scholarly papers
under tttro headings, “Revolution
and Religion” and “Negro Man
Power in the Conflict.^’ All group
sessions will be held in the Ed
ucation Building.
Hiursday night’s main speaker
for the public meeting is John
Hope Franklin, chairman of the
department of history at Brooklyn
College. Franklin will apeak in
the B. N. Duke Auditorium at
7:30 on -‘A Century of Civil War
Observance.”
Friday morning will, be given
over to group sessions under the
titlea “iSome Unkown Moments of
Transition” 'Md “Aspects of the
Contemporary Negro Life-U.SA.”
These will be followed in the
afternoon by a panel featuring
two African unbaasadors and the
third secretary of the Nigerian
embassy. They will discuss “Con-
Srti >fCC,‘ page 6-A
ESC ChargedHrith Bias
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JM CROW SNMS
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Airport Promises To
Remove Racial Insult
The impending arrival of Presi
dent John F. Kennedy for a cere
mony at the Raieigh-Durham air-1
port Thursday changed in three
days what Negro leaders have
been unable to do in several
years.
Since .the Raleigh-Durham air
port was constructed, several
years ago, Negro leaders in Dur
ham and Raleigh areas have com
plained alx>ut the jim crow
toilet facilities maintained there.
Five years ago, when the air
port^ authority sought funds from
the federal government for an ad
dition, the TIME^ publisher L. E.
Austin posed for a picture be
side the entrance to the men's
rest room.
The picture, carried in the
TIMES, showed him pointing to
a sign on the door which read,
“Colored Men.”
The Durham Committee on
Negro Affairs and a similar group
in Raleigh presented formal pro
tests to the airport authority.
Although their protesta did,
not go entirely unheeded — tVie
jim crow law was never enforc-
’ed—the sigfts remained.
The situation lay dormant this
way until early this week.
On Monday, It suddenly came
alive when the Durham Youth and
College Chapters of the NAACP
^sked local airport authorities -lo
remove the jim crow signs -from
: •reai'-rwwT’'hi vieW of
the impending presence of the
nation’s executive.
John Edwards, chairman of the
group, telephoned Airport Com-
REPLACES TMURGOOD MAR-
SHAi-L—Jack Grenberg hit
been named te replace Thur-
good Marshall at director of
the NAACP's Legal Defense
ud Btueatnmat Pond tne.. It
was announced this week.
Greenberg has been Marshall'*
principal assistant, and As
sistant Coensel since 1949.
Marshall resigned his position
last week to take an appoint
ment to a federal judgeship.
Replacing Greenberg as as
sistant counsel is Mirs. Con
stance Baker Motley, who was
formerly a member of- the
NAACP's legal staff.
mission chairman Attorney James i state law required tha» toiW
Patton. Patton replied that there | facilities for tne races be »*g-
was nothing he could do, that (regated.
Edward Opton, another member
of the group, called Dillard Tecr,
also a member of the airport au
thority, and told him of the or
ganization's plan to wire President
Ktnnedy if the signs were not re
moved.
According to Opton, Tcer’s re
ply was at once bri“f and colorful;
“You can wire the President or
any damn body you please!”
With thif reception from the
local airport authority, the young
NAACP group dispatched the fol
lowing wire last Monday to the
President;
“Aaoial segregation is practic
ed at the Raleigh-Durham air
port, at which yoii are scheduled
toropea.th£ North Carolina Inter-
nationdT Triid# Fair on Oct. 12,
1961. The chairman of the Air
port Board of Control. Mr. Patton,
has refused to remove the offc n-
sive racial signs from the aJ-
port rest rooms.
KENNEDY See AIRPORT, page 2-A
APPOINTED TO
CITY COUNCIL
UUMBERTON —, Lumberton’s
this week the appointment of the
Rev. E. B. Turner to the Lumber-
ton City Council. Turner will fill
the unexpired term of Council
man Wade H. Spearman, who as
the first Negro elected last spring
to serve on the City’s governing
body resigned last week because
of physical inability.
Rev, Turner for 14 years the
pastor of the First Baptist Church
here is a graduate of Shaw Un
iversity, the Shaw Theological
Seminary and holds a Master of
Theology Degree form Midwestern
Graduate Theological School, In
dianapolis, Indiania.
SCHLESINGER
NEWS BRIEFS
FRANKLIN
STHOUKiBURG, PA,—William
D. Johnson, operator of a succes
sful service station here, be
came the first Negro ever to head
a state chapter of the Junior
Chamber of Commerce,
Johnson was elected president
of the Pennsylvania Jaycees last
week. He had previously held
positions as regional vice presi
dent, national director, adminis
trative vice president and execu
tive vice president of the state
organization.
NEW BAPTIST BODY TO MEET
OINOINNATI—An organization
set up to form a ne^v Baptist con
vention has announced that it
plans to meet on Nov. 14 and
IS at the Zion Baptist Church
here. ■ Keynote speaker will be
the Rev, William H. Borders of
Atlanta, and nominations will be
opened to elect national officers,
^BEAUTY Ca BUILDS
NEW HOME
NEW YORK—Posner’s Beauty
Supply Co. announced this week
that it is demolishing its old
buildings located at 7th and Len
nox Aves, and will begin con
struction on a new development
in the near future. The new home
is expected to be completed by
iJune. 1962.
Several Tar Heel Firms Are
In Complaint to Federal Agency
WASHINGTON — Two railway charged with racial diacrimma-
copipanies, a trade union, a man-j tion in cu(npla,tnts filed here
ufacto^'Sf "electrtcaT «iiiiphie«tt.| (Oa: tff) wj|li
a minWle structures producer, a I the President's Committee on Eq»
major tobacco firm, an aircraft | al Employment Opportunity,
manufacturer and a state ag.ency— Named in compiaints Filed
all located in the South — are. by Herbert HUl, labor secretary
7 ] of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
are the Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road and St. Louis-San Franciso
Kailroad .Xompany. the Brother-
huad of lUilr^ Trainmen: the
Western. Slfictric Company, Najh-
yille, Tenii,; AVCO Manufactni.ng
ecrporati«i»,-Naahville, Tenn.; Lig
gett and &(yera Tobacco Company,
Durham, Douglaa Aircraft Com
pany, Charlotte, and the North
jUto Security Commis-
pi5^jniirt)am.
Tuup'port, oi, the charges of job
iJttliiiluWliW^ Hill submitted a
4otatl.of»myljfeldavits by Negro
'woi;ll^jfS^'"H^flJ^ members, who
were filed itkb John Field, ex-
liad been denied employment, pro
motion or tvfkrral. The complaints
ecutive director of the President’s
CommittM,
Negro workers in St. Peters-
burg£ Fla,, and Memphis, Tenn,,
^ signetf*affitayfts charging a l>road
I pattern of collusion between the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
on-the one hand, and the Atlantic
C5st33ee Md the St. Louis-San
Francl^d^ Railroad companies.
They charge that the Trainmt'n’s
, union sonsRin'c with the rail-
ector of public relations for the companies to classify Ne«ro
A,M.E. Zion Church, was keyi^e ^ ^
speaker at the annual Mens Day opportunities to Negro
employeea and to depress tb»ir
wages. They further charge that
the union is a “lily-white” organiza
tion which accepts only white em
ployees as menabers.
There ar* only eight Negro em>
See CHARGED, page 6-A
REV. TURNER
Negro Heads Pennsylvania Jaycees
MEN'S DAY SPEAKER
NEW BERN — Alexander Bar
nes, veteran newsman and Dir-
Celebration at St. Peters A.M.E.
Zion Church here last week,
SHAW CONVOCATION
RALEUGH — Shaw University
held its first fall convocation on
Oct, 6 in the University’s Green-
leaf Auditorium, Dr. James A,
Colston, president of Knoxville
College, was keynote speaker.
PETITIONS FROM ENGLAND
WASHINGTON — Twenty-five
British leaders, including nine I
members of Parliament and the|
chairman of the Birtish Trades
Union Congress, have petitioned
President Kennedy to free Carl
Braden and Frank Wilkinson who
are serving one-year prison .terms
for contempt of the House Un- ATUUjTA-'ne SUta of Geontia
An»eri/'an Activities Committee. | dMay«t thia week aa
KEYNOTER : NAAO aaatiM lor a nnr trial
LYNCHBURG. V.\. — Bishop for lS-y«tf^d Presto* CoMy
Stephen Gill Spottswood ol the charged dayiiv a T^yiwati
Georgia Delays
Dec^ On
YoA's Fate
African Methodist Episcopal
Church and chairman ef the
board of directors of the NAACP
will deliver the Keynote address
of the 26th anniial State NAACP
Convention, Fnday. .Oct. 13 at
Court St. Baptiat Church here
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