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Stanford L v/arren jlic Library Kidd if^wer Was Discovered By Durham Man Hiumf Slip FAR MIUIM W Pli MX BURIAL Scenes From Annual Meeting of Durham Committee on Negro Affairs L*it panal showi L. E. Austin. pnbUshar of th« CAROLIHA TIMES, (•Miring • pl^u* for outilanding Mrric* to tha community from L. B. Fiatiar, co-chairmaq of CONA't Ciric CompiiUaa. Second panal iho«ri John H. Whaalar, chair> man of CONA. deliToring fais annual report. Panel to right show* Mri. Cora Ruiaell, president of the Volkamenia Club, being awarded • plaque by Fraiier for the club's com munity betterment project. Lower center ihows platform gueiti and speakers and the North Caroiina College Choir being directed by Samuel Hill. The action look place Sunday at the St. Mark AME Zion Church. flave tha CAAOUMA TIMES Mirered to your home erery WMk. Yearly suliecriptioni coat •nly $4. Don’t wait... act now. Tot information, write the Carolina Times, 436 E. Pettigrew Bt» or call 682-2913 or 681 • ••12. Read the CABOLINA Times, North Carolina'! lead- GROUP CITES TWO VOLUME 38 No. 4 "•niE^UTHltelBwSEI DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1962 RETURN REQUESTED PRICE: IS Cmits Select Group BOSTON—Jackie Robinson, first Negro to pljiy in the major leagues, Wednesday was the first of the race ever elected to tweball’s highest honor, its Hall Fame at Cooperstown, N. Y. The greying former Brooklyn Dodger irrfieider was enshrined Wednesday along with Bob Fell- the quiet farm boy from Iowa who blazed a fast ball through tHe American League for nearly 2^ years. Both won election to the hall % first they were eligible, a fiVe year retirement from l»se- ball being mandatory. It was the first time the Baseball Writers of America had named anyone on their first eligible shot since the original five Ty Oobb, Babe Ruth, Walter John son, Honus Wagner and Christy Mathewson were tapped in the first election in 1936. Candidates needed 79 per cent o^ the votes oast. Feller, now ah insurance executive in Cleve land, received ISO votes and Robinson, vice president of a restaurant and coffee company, got 124 votes, four more than the minimum needed. “It’s a once in a lifetime ttirili,” said Robinson at his Slamiford, Conn. home. “It’s hard t4 described my feelings fully at this time. I am pleased and honored; My family is so excit ed ho one wants to eat.” Robinson broke tkasebail’s C6^r line in 184^. Branch i Mi^ey, then general ntf nager of the Dodgers, had startled the btseball world the year before when he signed Jackie to a Bivoklyn farm- contract. Jackie, w4io had been an out- atanding football player tor OOLA, was with the Kansas City Mbnarchs Of the Negro Aftiericlui I/Mgue at the time. He spent OM year of seasoning at Mon- talMi, leading the International Iteague in batting and fielding and then joined Brooklyn as ■ second baseman. Quiet, hard working and al- wajrs both an offensive and de fensive threat, Robinson flirted See ROBINSON, 6-A Drive Against Segregation In National Guard Among Goals Outlined For Durham Committee Integration of the North Caro-1 Negro community through his Una National Guard and equal newspaper work. en»ployment in the State Em- He was cited for his per- Three Children Burned to Death KINSTON — Three Negro children were burned to death at their farm home five miles north of Kinston Tuesday night. They were Cecil Fordham, 12, Doris Fordham, 3, and Freddie Fordham, 2, children of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Fordliam. Two men who saw the blaze were beaten back by the flamu ,in. Iheir house. Cttf^s sirts ham and Cecil were downsmrf when they heard an explosion upstairs. The youn«tter ran up to try to reiuue hlii tuuthut' Bnd ' sister but was overcoitie by smoke and fire. Mrs. Fordham tried twice un- Buccessfuly to rescue the child ren. Fordham had gone to a nearby store but returned too late to save the victims. Parents of Baby Whose Body Was Foulid by Hunters Bring Action GRE£NSBORO—Nathaniel E. Ilie handed Hargett $47.80. Hargett Sr.. controversial figure Foole said Hargett told hkn in the recent Greensboro grave-1 a funeral service would not be yard case, was named defendant necessary and returned $9 of In a $90,000 suit here Tuesday j the money. For the remaining brought by a couple who said $42.90, Poole said, Hargett pro- he burled their Infant son in a pine box with four other babies after promiislng to give the baby a "decent and proper burial.” Willie and Dorothy Scales Poole filed the action In Guil ford Superior Court Hargett, trading as Hargett Funeral Home at 906 E Market St. The Poole complaint said tliat their unnamed twin baby died the day it was born, July 6, 1961, at L. Richardson Memori al Hospital and that Poole went to the funeral home that' night to talk with Hargett about the funeral for the child. Poole said he was told Har gett was not available that night but that the expense would be $47.90 and that Hargett would be at the funeral home the next morning. The next morning, Poole said, he talked with Hargett and was shown a “small light grey oasket w41ih silk type Hnlng, which Hargett represented as the type in which the child would be burled. Poole said he agreed on the casket and asked Hargett to make necessary arrangements for a "decent and proper burial” for his child. Hargett agreed to do so, Poole said, adding that necessary «r- mised to make rangeincnts. Puule said he heard nothing more ubout the arrangements, but that he and his wife were infonned that Hargett did not sec to the burial of the child for against j some five days aft«r the baby's body was turned over to the funeral home. On Dec. 18, the Guilford County's sheriff department was notified that partially opened graves had been discovered near the Randolph County line. Investigation resulted in the finding of, among other things, a pine box containing the re mnants of five Negro children, piled on top of eacti other. One of the babies, according tu the complaint, was (he Poole infant. Poole said the child still wore the bracelet of L. Richardson Hospital with the name, “Poole, male” on It and Mrs. Poole’s hospital patient number. The complaint said the child had not been embalmed and had been placed In a transparent plastic bag and stacked fourth In the pile of five babies, Poole said the pine box had been partially unearthed by animals and that no part of the box was covered by more See SUED, 6-A ' ' jftwTin Brewer In Deserted Bam Jackie Robinson Taylor Gets High Demo PostlnNewYork NJBW YORK — The Rev. Gardner C. Taylor, prominent Baptist mihister, was appointed to a new three man commission which runs t)he Democratic party in New York until the Fall primary. Taylor was picked by New York Mayor Robert Wagner a- long with John J. Lynch, presi dent of Kings County Trust Company, and Aaron Jacoby, board chaimun of Fairtianks • Whitney ' corporation. The three will preside over meetings of the party’s 44 man executive committee until a new leader i9 picked in the fall elections. Taylor, pastor of Concord Baptist Church, has been an ardent supporter of the De mocratic party in the past, al though he has never run for politlca'l office. The New York TIMES point ed out that Taylor’s selection in dicated Wagner’s challenge to the pemnial leadership of Ne gro democrats in N. Y, provided by Rep. Adam Powell. The TIMES said Wagner hopes to make Taylor the spokesman for the Negro community, the role now occupied by Powell. Powell and Taylor are good friends and have never particl- Sce TAYLOR, 6-A ployment Security Commission operations were the goals set by the Duriiam Committee on Negro Affairs as they held their annual progress meeting Sun day at the St. Mark A. M. E. Zion Church. John H. Wheeler, chairman of CONA said In his annual re port that the committee will “continue the drive for fair enrlployment in local business and industry.” Another primary objective for this year, Wheeler said, is in creased Negro voter registration on the local level. The issues of Negro member ship in the National Guard and of equal employment op portunity in State Employment Security Commission offices was raised by the Durham comm ittee in a petition to the gover nor last summer. Wheeler said, however, that the committee feels the gover nor has been “rather unrespon sive” to the petition. He said they are aiming for integration of National Guard forces by the end of the year. A subconmiittee report told committee’s memtoershlp at the annual meeting that racial dis crimination is being practiced In State Ehnploymcnt Security Coonmission offices all over the state. “Every office In tlie state Is violating federal regulations,” the report said in essence, point ing to the use of federal funds In operating the employment offices. It called this “one of the great barriers” Negroes have to face. Sunday’s annual meeting of the committee featured the presentations of awards to L. E. Austin, publisher, of the CAJROiaNA TUIES, and to Mrs. Cora Russell, president of the Volkamenia LJterary Club. Austin was honored for his leadership In the fight for civil lights and for bis kervlce to in« severence In the civil rights movement “despite ^ocal press ures.”- Mrs. Russell was awarded a plaque for the Volkamenia Ctnb -which -had the . best com munity betterment project for 1001. Among the things for which the club was cited were giving financial aid to the John Avery Boys Club, the United Fund, the North Carolina Col lege scholarship fund, the NCC freshman class, the Brail Maga zine for the Blind and the YWCA. The Volxamenla Club won the award over nine other organiza tions In competition. A slmiliar award will also be given next year. Lack of Space Forces NCC to Curb Enrollment North Carolina College will limit enrollment next year be cause of cover-crowded condi tions, memlbers of the college's Board of Trustees were told in a called meeting here Wednes day. President Alfonso Elder made the disclosure to the Board, promfMy went on re cord in favor of asking the State Legislature for over $9,000,000 in capital improvements to re lieve conditipne and aid expan sion at the college. Dr. Elder said the college ex pects enrollment to re»ch 2,500 this year. It will be held to this number pending relief through additional dormltoiies and othttr facilities which the trustees will request of the 1N3 legislature. Some 3.000 students are ex- See NCC, 6-A NEWS IN BRIEF Young Hargett Convicted For Reporting Automobile Stolen GBBBNSBORO—Nathaniel E. Hargett Jr., 34-year-old funeral director, Wednesday was con victed of giving a false report to GreensDoro police radio. He appealed to Guilford Superior Court. Judge Herman Enochs Jr., of Municipal • County Court, gave Hargett, operator of Everett’s Funeral Home, a six-month su spended term and fined him $290 and costs. Appeal bond was set at $500. Hargett’s attorney, Charles T. Hagen Jr., argued that thr false report case was "getting to be a Roman circus” In re ferring to newspaper publicity connecting Hargett with dls- coverey of nearly 20 graves at an abandoned farm house 10 mil^ south of the city Dec. 18. Hagan said Hargett was acting “only to seek Justice” in re porting On Dec. 7 that his small foreign car had been stolen from the funeral home. Police reported they found the car wedged In a hole near the farmhouse on Dec. 18, where he also arrested Hargett with a wrecker, A ipavedigger frequently cm- by Hargett, said that at tt’s request, he went to ouse to dig a septic tank 4 by 8 by four and a half 'pie gravedigger, William Mc- Nnl testified that two days later H(rgett ent>ployod him to en large the hole to 14 feet long o4 both oocassing, the car was within four feet of the hole l>e- hind the house, he said. TtAVANA, CUBA—A piisentativt of the North America’’ was Introduced at tile so-called people’s con ference here Tuesday night and shouted “Cuba si, Yanqul no.” The man was Introduced to the group as Robert Williams, and Is believed to be the same Robert F. Williams, of Monroe, N, C. who fled to Cuba last year to avoid prosecution on kidnap charges stemming from the holding of a white couple 9* host- ■tjH during racial troubles at r'jiiroe last summer. V\ iiiiams, a Castro sympathiz er, was once su^nded from his post as president of the Union County, N. C. NAACP chapter for advocating “violence ■to meet violence”. The Cuban conference, held In one of that nation's largest theaters, was timed to coincide with the ' hemisphere foreign ministers’ meeting held In Uraguay, where the United States Is leading a drive to oust Cuba from tiie inter-Amorican syst€?m because of Fidel Castro’s close ties with conununlsm. Castro did not show up at this inaugural meeting of left ists from a dozen countries. The conference was reported to have been televised over a Cuban network. AL CAPONE TO BE ENLISTED IN SERVICE OF THE NAACP A1 Capone, the country’s most notorious big time crimin al, according to popular legend, will come to the aid of the NAACP, unwittingly and post humously, of course • if plans made by the Durham Business College youth chapter jell. The story of the life of “Big Set BKlEfS, fi-A A 34-year-old Durham man was Instrumental In saving the life of Kidd Brewer, Raleigh buslnessman-politiclan who at tempted to take his life earlier this week, It was learned. The man was Oscar L. Bridges of 3-A Sima St., McDougald Terrace, who was reported to be the first to find wewer ly ing with his neck and wrists cut in an abandoned barn near the Brewer home. Brewer was a key figure In I investigation into Highway Department sign procuremint activities. He was to have ap peared Tuesday at a hearing before State Revenue Com missioner William Johnson. In an interview with the TIMES, Bridges, “a gas meter reader for the Blueflame Gas Co., told how he Joined the search and found Brewer’s t>ody. “I went to Brewer’s house to read his meier Monday and as I approached, I noticed his daughter standing In front of the house crying. She toild me she thought her father had shot himself. She had searched but was unable to find him. “I voluntarily Joined the search with Wake Co. sheriff and Brewer’s wife. We searched the entire area thoroughly and proceeded to search an old de serted barn near Brewer’s house. “We searched the barn once and returned to the outside. Brewer’s wife suggested we search again, so she and I went back Into the barn. We went to the second floor. It was very dark . . . and I decided to go Into a closed room. After BearchtQg there tor quHe a while, I found Brewer lying In a far corner, I felt his pulse and he appeared to be still living. ' “He was wearing a dark broMvi suit with the collar pull ed up around his neck and a hat pulled down on his head.. He was cut on the right side of his neck and on both wrlste . . he had a snille on his face and I tried to talk with him but he didn’t respond,” Bridges said he had been reading meters In that area for nearly ten years and had known Brewer for about nine years. Sc« DISCOVERS, 6-A Ohio Principal Tar Heel Native, Dies in Cleveland CLEVELAND, OHIO — Jesse W. Bagley, asslatant principal at Empire Junior High SehooJ, died Friday In his home, 19809 Throckley Avenue S. E., after a heart attack. He was 40. He had been a member of the teaching atafi of the Cleve land Board of Education for tfa* last five years. His first teaching here was of science at Addison Junior High School. At the time he was appointed asslatant princi pal at Empire Junior High two years ago, he was head of the science department at Addison. He was vice president of the Cleveland Alumni Association of the Agricultural and Tech nical College at Greensboro, N, C; a member of Alpah Phi Alpha fratendty and a life ’ menvber of the National Educa tion Association. He was a mennber of the Plus Club here. Active ia Church Bagley was an active mem ber of St, FVter’a A. M. B. Zlon Church and a board mem ber of the Gleovllle MelgMbor- hood Community Center. He wai a ^teran of World War 11, serving overseas In ttte Army for- three years. Born In Princeton, N. C-. he attended public schools of Dur ham, N. C. Hi* bachelor degree was from Oreensboro AAT and his masters Oeutfic from North Carolina College of Durham. He took later studies toward ■ doctorate at Syracuse Univer sity and the University o Connecticut. He taught in high school la Ashville, N. C. and was principal of Mountain Street School toera for elgitt year*. Surviving Bagley are Ms wife, iBora; a sister and a brother. His wife Is a teat^ier at Kennard Junior High Sdiool. Funeral services were at 1 p.m. Tuesday in tM fu- 'MWrr®,
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