North Carolina Newspapers

Stanford L Warren Public Library Pcyotteville St 7-1/1. '6 APTISTS BAN REHIRING OF STRASSNER ★ ★ ★ ♦ 4- ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ * ★ ★ ★ ORE Preparing For Move On Area Restaurants volume 38 — No. 29 DURHAM, N. SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1M2 RETURN REQUESTED PRiCEi U lliC. Ushers Select Chapel Hill G^p Bypasses ■ ^ * V P^flotte For ili^l Meeting -CH>1|PKL HILL ^ The 1962 an- nuiil lession .of the Int^erdenomi- national Ushers Association will convene in Chapel Hill August 23- .it was announced here last «tc«k by officials of the Associa- llQn. Selection of Chapel Hill as tte seiit of this year’s annual meeting was made aftcir definite yjrprd ^rom Charlotte failed lo ijeach Uie program committeu be- |6re the deadline. ' Host ^ church for the annual Ipeetin^ will be St. Joseph C.M.E. Gfailrch iof which Rev, W. R. Fou- phee is« pastqr. .Already several tteeting| with membert of the lo- etl arntngements committee and statl officials bave been held I pla^s are ;oin|( forwarfl for kef th« best annual sessions in ' Accorijlng to advanced infer- iiuUon 0ome of the very best ^oirs of Chapel Hill churches hkVe beefn selected to furnish mu- for the public program and 1^1 enthusiasm is running high IB anticipation of the large dele $i{iob expected. N. C C. Searching For New President Jim Crow at Eating Places To Be Target GREENSBORO — TWrty o the nation’s most experienced demonstrat6rs have assembled here in the birthplace of the ait-lns to undergo intensive train ing for CORE’S Freedom High- ■Ways campaign. The CORE project is designed to open major restaurant chain* along federal highways in the southeast to Negroes. Currently, it Is practically im possible for a Negro travelling by car to eat in any restaurant North Carolina College trustees have unofficially begun a search for replacement for NCC Presi dent Alfongo Elder, who is scheduled to retire next year. Informed sources said this week that the trustees were slated to gather at the school this week to prepare a plan for selecting a new president. It is expected that the group will name a special committee to screen prospective apprinrteea. Already aeveral “feelers” have been extended to prospects, it was reported. Dr. EUder, gucceskor to the school’s founder, Or- Shepard, U slated to retire in 19^3. State IMoyees maiadatairy at €S. He was elected president in l»4iS. Eigfil Students Enter Suit to Desegregate Carolina Theatre The North Carolina Depart ment of Motor Vehicles says at night, slow down. Don’t be in such a hiirry to reach the end of the road! gan wii _J;i Without Explanation 'Atlanta, Georgia — Martin tether King, jr. and Ralph Aber- hnhy, perennial jail partners, wiffe released from Albany city m . Thursday over their strong pftotest. . Abernathy^ now an Atlanta pas tor, declared, “ I feel our consti tutional privileges has been violat ed... . . We have been advised by counsel that the payment of our fines by this mysterious person raises a graVe legal question that hinges on denying us “due process of law.” Dr. King in a press conference itlimedialely following the sudden release said, “We are most un happy' about being out of jail. What disturbs us most is the sub tie and conniving methods used to ed out of jail against our will.”.. Several local leaders felt the city had a Change of heart since release us. We were literally fore see KING, 5-A TO' arr diploma, at dhs —Gloria Jaan Morrii, daugh ter Mr. and Mrs. Johnny Morris, of 1010 LancMtar St., is scheduled lo be a member of the graduating clait at Dur ham high school on Saturday. Gloria Jean entered Durham high last fall as a meniber of Ihe senior clMt. GREENSBORO — A suit has been filed here in federal court Seeking the opening of the Caro lina Theater in Durham ta Ne groes. ' The action was entered by eight Negro students of Durham, who state in the complaint that they Were denied admittance to the main auditorium of the theater.. The action iy directed agai|ut the 'bie E!nterpr(sc, Inc., whi^ ope rates the theater under a lease from the City of Durham. The plaintiffs seek a permanent injunction enjoining defendants, their agents, employees, lessesses, attorneys and successors and all peroiis in active concert and par ticipation With them from coii tinuing lo enforce ■ or pem^t to be enforced Shy policy or practice of racial segre^atibh or exclusion against Negrtta” in the use oi the theater. >' ■ ' The action'jfal^^tMt when the plaintiffs sought adniission to the main auditorium, df the city-owned theater, ticket sellers refused to sell them tipkets and referred them to the side or "colored” en trance of the building. Se^ THEATER, 5-A GREEItSBORO (Special) — Test teams from CORE, attend ing a workshop here Tuesday, failed in an attempt to Inte grate e dosen eating places. Four and fire man teams from CORE were sent out Tuesday to 12 eating establishments to seek serrice. All >Rrera refused. aong the way without aubmltt- ing to gross humillatioii, a spokesman for CORE said. Participants in the project in clude Freedom Riders and othera -\Yho have been jailed in the south because of their civil rights activities. Gordon R. Carey, CORE pro ject direc^r, says “They are the cream of the civil rights movement. Already more than 80 Howard Johnson Restaurants iMiye been desegregated in Flor ida, Virginia and North Caro- liaa through CORE’S efforU. Tl)i^ new campaign in the South ia!t4Ui8nad to complete th« task June Graduate 01 Hillside CONVENTION SCENE—Here it a scene from the special seMion of State Baptist Coa- ▼entioh held in Raleigh at the Shaw University church on Tuesday. Standing at left fore ground (back to cametf) it the Rev. James Werti, of Char lotte, chairman of the execu tive committee. Leaning over next to him (in whiff skirt) Is Rev. J, R. Manley, oi Cbepel Hill, secretary of the convent ion. Strassner Gets Confidence Vote Convention Rebuffs Executive Officers Clinton Weston, 18 year old June graduate of Hillside High ifjtool. died suddelly last week Mt'Piike rte was buried See VICTIM, 5-A RALEIGH — The General State Baptist Convention Tues day repudlatod the stand that its executive committee had taken in the controversy over tiie dis- missal of Dr. Strassner as pre sident S^w University. down a , , executive cogHbnittM draft ed calling on the trustees to re scind their firing of Strassner. But it gave Dr Strassner a vote of confidence, pledged to work lor his retention at Shaw in a post of “dignity”, and asked the trus.tees to expjain thedt action in a conference wRh Three State Conventions Set For Durham Area Holy Church Meeting: At Mount Calvary Mt. Calvary Church, located annual state convention of the United Holy Church of America. The convention will opeif 6n Sunday, July 22 and continue through July 29. The first two days of the meet ing will be devoted to the Mis- See HOLY, 5-A Mt. Vernon To Be Host to Baptists Mt. Vernon Baptist Church will be host to the State Sunday Schobl and Baptist Training Union convention, 'it was an- m)unced here this week. The convention will open at the church, located in Durham on South Roxboro street, on See HOST, 5-A 'Royal Arch Pifasons Convene Wednesday The annual state convention of the Royal Arch Masons will be held in Durham on next Wednesday. Announcement or the convent ion was made this week by E. G. Turner, high priest of the local chapter of the organiza tions. Headcjuartess of the . ona-day convention will be the Masonic temple in Durham, located on Pettigrew street. Some .15 chapters from cities throughout the state are expect ed to send delegates to the con vention, Turner said. Among these cities are States ville, 1 Hie kory, Charlotte^ ’Fhomasville, Chapel Hill and See MASONS, 5-A 'LEAD DURHAM SCHOOL tASE—He^ If the group of ^AACP ettorneys who present- S,4»cond Mt of argutnentt . in the Durfiam and Charlottes- ''irtlle, Va,,. school Integration featet before Hie Pourth Circuit Court of Appeals at Richmond, Va., recently. Left to right, front i row, are Attorneys M. Hugh Thompson, J. ,H. Wheeler, of i Durham; Jsm«i Nabrltt, III, of New York; C. O. Pearsen, Dur> ham; and S. W. Tucker, Imperia, Va. Standing in tiM rear are Jack Greenberg, New York; P. B. McKlssick; Durham; Marsh, Jr., Derfiam; and Henry L. Marsh, III, Richmond, Va. Tucker and Henry Marsh hand led arguments In Charlottee- vllle case. WESTON NCC Reading Clinic Has Largre Program Of the Mx special programs, clinics, institutes, and workshops at North Carolina College this summer, the largest was the Readiag Clinic under the dirpc- tion of l|rs. C^Ua Edwards, visit, ing professor from the Atlanta, Ga.. public schools. There were 115 participants, who hold degrees from 16 cnlleges in four states, including the Caro- llnas. Virginia, and Tennessee. Fayetteville State Teachers Col lege had the largest number of graduates represented, 33, follow- ^ in order by Shaw, 17, Winston- Salem, 16, EUzabeth City, 12, NCC, 11, Benedict, 2, Barber Scotia 2, and South Carolina State. Knox ville. Virginia Union, and St. Paul’s, 1 each. One of the enrollecs, Mrs. Bes sie B. Redding of Oxford, is the mother of two NCC graduates, Mrs. Betty Redding Edwards. '50, and Marshall, '60, now a student In medicine at UNC. Mrs. Redding received her master’s degree here in lfl7, and Marshall also earned a itiater’s degree at NCC before entering medical school. Mrs. Rcd- convention officers., Thts* develApmentil came at a special session df the tonvention held Tuesday-at Ui« University a^ii^rch .on Shaw's campus. The special'sesiioil Callbd'by* execu tive committee to act on the re solutions it drafted on the fir ing of Slirassner. The strongest of the resolut ions passed by the executive com mittee on June 20 were either voted down by the convention or were deleted ijefore coming to a vote. The key resolutioiT, which called for the rehiring of Dr. Strassner, was failed by a vote of 132 to 97. The text of this resolution asked “That the trustees rescind their action in discharging Dr. Strassner." It was taken up first, and after it had ijeen kiUcd, the outcome of the issue was never in d'.ubt. 'ml" two of the resolutions v,hl li had been drafted by the ext;cutlve committee were ap proved. Both asked that the trustees meet with convention representatives and explain rea sons for their action in dismiss ing Dr. Strassner. Perhaps the most harshly word ed of the five resolutions was deleted by the chairman' before It came to a vote. Dr. R. Mack Pitts, of Winston- Salem, president of the convent ion, asked for and received '“common cbnaeni" iroax dele- tt- - The molutlon warned that the convention would coraiider With drawing its financial support from Shaw if its request- that Dr. Strassner be rehired were no complied with. ^ Several years ago the convent- ion voted to aasumn. thu ,;Cai2ltal Indebtedncas of' Sh$w.‘ It con tributes $^0,0P0' annu^li^ . to the School. , There ^as been much dis cussion about this resoiutlonr be- itig a threat," Df. Pitts com mented in asking for the dele gates' permission to delele it. The final resolution, which sharply critized -the trustees al- failed to reach the floor for vote. It was killed on sub stitute motion' offered by Rev. Kelly Godwin, of Winston-Salem. This resolution said; “we feci that the action. of the trustees is unparallel with any action of trustees of any other inrstitution under the circumstances we have at hand." Although the resolutions which finally survived the con vention represenrted a consider-, ably softer tone than the origin al ones drafted by the executive committee, Dr. Stra.ssner was warmly praised by several dele gates who* pointed out that he had "served Shaw as a Christian gerrtleman for more than 15 years." The convention gave him a vote of thanks following an impassioned speech delivered by Mrs. M. A. Horne of Winstonr- CENTER OP- CO.VTROVERSY —Dr. William R. Strassner, whose euslar as president oi Shew University, touched off na miatenny which lad in Tuesday's special session of the Baptist convention, i s shown addrmtng ihe convent ion. ■D air M ivM am mi mi m Strassner Speaks In Durham on July 29 Dr. William R. Strassner, presi dent of Shaw Unive''»ity_ will lie the main speaker ut While itock Baptist Church Sunday, July 2b. Dr, Strassnor's appearance in Durham at the Baptist church is in connection with White Kock’s obH.^rvancc of Charles Clinton Spaulding Scholarship Day. . The ohservance honors tiie late trustee of the church and provides funds for the support of Shaw University. M ■ an lan mm mr im Salem, president of the Women’s Baptist Home and Foreign Mis sionary Conventioqr. Dr. Strassner, center of the controversy, attended the pro ceedings and sat on the rostrum with the convention president Dr. Pitts and the executive committee chairman. Rev. Jjines F. Wertz, of Charlotte. See BAPTISTS, 5 A Informer during lull in tIon.' •^11 photos by P ilty trustee beard, confers with the Rav. CeleAien Kerry, ef Charlatts, gditer 9f tht Isptist TRUSTEE CHAIRMAN — Or. John White, af AahevlIRe (leH) chairmen ef Hie Shtw Vnlver McCLOUD