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Over ^00 Bid Farewell To Holy Land Trip Winner
IS mm WITH PREJinicE
^ves to ciM«rinc throne whe boards p)mm »t Raleigli-Diarliiim airport Sunday
ey,. Jam£s A.- Brown, winner
Jthe Carolina Times Holy Land
!tr^r. was scheduled to spend
ihM. week-end slghtseeiniy at
himFic ;.siie& in Rome:
Kis tWo and one ha'f day s*.op
ia^^e “ttemal City" was one
Ofjifeveral stops enroute to hi.-
fiilb} destination, the Holy Land
^e" Is scheduled to arrive in
Jenisilem on next Tuesday (Aug
r»;
jRey, Brown reported from
New York on Monday that every
t^g was going “smoothly” in
jilsV travel plans.
, ]^He talked by telephone for
leVftral minutes with TIMES
piiUisher L. E. Austin
T^e popular Ebenezer Baptist
church minister took off from
(Ihe Duri^iam-Raleigh airport Sun
day afternoon amid a tumultu
ous farewell from members of
his church.
^yiore than 300 Ebenezer Bap
tist church mem^rs^ turned out
at the airport to bCd'farewell to
their pastor.
He was also met at the air
port by City Councilman John
S. Stewart, and Carolina Times
publisher L. E. Austin
TJhe airport farewell was the
climax to a series of events held
fbr'him in cbnnentction with his
departure.
On Saturday night, eve of his
take-off, he was guest of honor
4t a receptiort held for him at
WbHhezer Baptist Church.
3klenlbers of tiie church who
had worked in the campaign to
ierrd him bn the trip identifed
luid given recognition by W, W.
Baftoee, Ebenezer trustee, and
brief talks were made by
Stfewart and Austin.
Earlier In the week. Rev.
Brbwn had closeted briefly with
Mayor E. J. Evans, who con
gratulated him on winning the
trip.
Sunday’s send-off events were
pltaned by church and Carolina
Tiineg officials.
Rev. Brown’s travel plans arft,
being handled' by Astral travfl
•gency. He arrived in New York
late Sunday arid was brifefed by
thft' agency on Monday He left
New York by jet Tuesday mom
lng» (Jiily 3t) for the first leg
of his overseas Journey, and was
to Arrive in Paris late Tuesday
. . See SHOWN, B-A
Next Week With Rev. Brown
Here’s Revi. Brown’s Itinerary
for next week, Aug. .5 tijrough
Aug. 11; '
AUG. S—Morning free for re
ligious services in ROME, Leave
ROME via British European Ari
ways Jet Flight No. 262. arrive
ATHENB 5:45 p. m. Check in at
Kings Palace Hotel. After din
ner, attendance at ATHENS
“Sound and Light” festival.
AUO. 6—Sightseeing in AT
HENS, at Acropolis. Cathedral
and principal churches.
AUG. 7—Leave ATHENS at
4:30 a. m. via Olympic Jet
Flight No. 284, arrive BEIRUT,
LEBANON at 7:30 a. m., con
nect with Air Liban (Lebanese
National Airlines) Flight No.
137 at 8:15 a. m., arrive JERU
SALEM (JORDAN) at 9:30 a. rti.
Check at Ambassador or Amer
ican Colony hotel. Afternoon
tour of MT. OF OUVES,
CHURCH OF ASCENSION
GARDDEN OF GETHSEMANE
1mA CHURCH OF NATIVITY in
BETHLEHEM.
AUG. 8—In JERUSALEM,
morning visit to CHURCH OF
THE HOLY SEPULCHRE, fol
low the WAY OF THE
CROSS TO CALVARY, See
KING SOLOMON'S STABLES
and WAILING WALL. .After
noon tour of BETHANY, JERI
CHO and RIVER JORDAN.
AUG. 9-^In JERUSALEM
transfer through Mandlebaum
Gate to ISRAEL said. Check in
at hotel King David. Afternoon
sightseeing.
AUG. 10—In ISRAEL, morn
ing sightseeing. Late Afternoon
depart for TEL AVIV. Check in
a Dan hotel.
AUG. II—In TEL AVIV. Day
free
New Ass'pnient
Map Attadieil
At Hearing
Durham's Board of Education
was formally charged with
practicing racial dlscriminaton
in Its handling of pupil afsign-
mento.
The charge was levellflb by
John H. Wheeler, chairman of
the Durham Committee 08 Ne
gro Affairs, Wednesday n|^t at
a special meetng of ^e boArd,
called to hear appeals by paretits
from assl^vnenta Miade bj( the
board. .
Wheeler accused the bow of
gerrymanderiag” districts form
ed in a new pupil assigiitaetit
map. j
He said the “gerrymanw”
was effected lor the sole ptf^
pose of discriminating ailpdnst
Negro pupUa.
He also said the board filled
to iniorm parents why their re
quests for reassignnienta weie
rejected.
Wiieeler’g statements were
ntade at' the beginning of the
board’s rehearing on applications
for reassignmenits rejected in
July.
The board took up some 145
appecls of rehearing on toe re
jected apptteatlons, and board
chairman Herman Rhinehart Mid
decisions would be made on the
appeals “as soon as. possible."
Some 60 parent* and attorneys
representing others attended tha
meeting.
Wheeler’s charges against the
board were responded to in part
by chairman Rhinehart.
Tha “gerrymandering” charge
brought by Wheeler had to do
wMh the way la >«biob achopl
board. Whfeeier*s charge Inferred
that the lines were deliberately
drawn in' such a way as to re
tain the maxinuim amount of
geographical segregation.
■: Rhinehairt TCid a long prepared
statement explaining the board’s
reason for the way in which the
iin»g wertt tjrasi®, JThel-^xt of.
his statement was riot a»vAllable
to the TIMES.
liej^ also said tiw' reasons for
the board’Ssf denial 6f iertWn ap
plications for reassignment were
contained in the minutes of the
board's meeting.
Some 99 Negro pupils who
were denied assignment to white
schools have appealed the
board’s decision.
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VOLUME 38 - No. 31 |j
DURHAM. N. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1962
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PICKETS IN DURHAM — A
manyHtidtd CORE - NAACP
dziT* against sagregation was
launched in Durham early this
this wMk. Tha campaign is
aimed at discrimination In am-
^ymant and sagtagalion .at
-nu^ua )iotal and lastuaraat
i^oaimtBMaMnnBt Tte iriMva
ieane was takM in front of
Eekard's Dnxi store in down*
fown Durham aarly this weak.
It shows a group of COMS and
NAACP damon^ratort in a
picket ol tha stois, Eckerd's
is being pickaHid for tha store’s
failure to^ hira Negroes In
etbar than traditloaal, menial
}^s, ttta d«incns|aation laad^
er «ar. TaMm und
«!• ■muuai>'%a»tf'«|il»
ter'Tioa at t.rwriwif of-Bur-
bam restuaranis, Ineludhg
Howard Johnson and tha.
Dobba Hause. At mid-week,
none ot tha sestuarant* had
served Negroes, Tha campaign
against plaaes of accomnwda-
iHona Ul pai^t ol tlM COSE
sponsored "Freadam High>
waya" me^amant, a campaign
deid—ad ia apw iMlatatlas
mafar kHlli-
waya to Na^o patrons.
—pkola by Purefoy.
Press Siler City Case
SILEH CITY — Floyd D.
McKissick, NAACP counsel, was
rptained here this week to re
present the interests of Melvin
White, who was killed by a
white policeman with five days
of experience.
Ptl. Joe Juclnic asserted that
young White was drunk and at
tempted to run away after be-
Georgia Youth Gets Life; Appeals
^ing Prepared to Higlier Court
Adventists Pid
Top Officer
SAN FRANCISCO — Frank
Loris Peterson, associate secre
tary of tlM: General Conference
of Seventh-day Adventists,
Wasixington, D. C., was elected
Sunday July 29 to the office of
Vice-president of the General
Conference.
This is the first time in the
history of the denomination
tiiat such a position has been
given to a memijer of the
colored race, although several
Negroes have held positions of
leader^ip in the world diurch.
Peterson became pastor of the
Berea church in Boston, Mass.,
in January 1929 and continued
in this capacity until July
1930. Durmg the same ^eai he
See ADVENTISTS, 5A
AUGUSTA, Ga. — Attorneys
for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People were this weekend
studying the trans7ript of the
record In the mu^’der convict
ion of 20 year old- Frank Dumas
Jr., to determine what further
action to take in thu case.
The first of nine young Ne
groes to be tried for the slay
ing on April 19 of Leslie Lee
See APPEALS, 5-A
Prince Edward
Scliools Order
Is Welcomed
NEW YORK — Leaders of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
this week hailed Federal Di
strict Judge Oren R. Lewis’
order directing Prince Edward
County School officials to re
open the public schools, closed
since 1950, as soon as oractical
and “without regard to race or
color.”
NAACP Executive Secretary
Roy WUkins called Judge Lewis’
opinion, handed down on July
26, “a great victory for the Ne
gro parents and children of
Prince Edward County” and
said It ‘‘rescues both white and
Negro children, the former from
catch as catch can unsatlsfact^
ory private education and the
latter from no educatJan ,at
aU.”
Prince Edward County, Wil
kins pointed out, ‘was unique
See WELCOMED, S-A
ing arrested) allegedly caUidng|have rlcochetied off the tfroujid
the officer to fire a wartiingl and struck the young Negro,
shot into tiia ground. j White’s fai^ily, after consider-
However, the shot Is 'said to I See SILER CITY, 5-A
Chatham Residents Meet With
Mayor on Police Killing Case
SILER CITY — On last Thurs
day, afternoon at 5:00 over 200
citizcn.s of Siier City and Cha
tham county gathered here in
the courtroom of city hall to
request the firing of suspended
officer Joe Kucinic.
A motorcade of afciout 37 cars
carried most of the citizens to
the city hall. Erwin Wombies,
president of the local branch of
the NAACP and Guytanna Hor
ton ’vere the spokesmen for the
gri'up
. I' prayer by Wombies
ill 111)11 ask the mayor Donald L.
P.i!ii;tiall, to recommend that
Kucinic be dismissed from the
police force after the shooting
Whitehead*s Name Added in Straw Vote
- The name of Dr. Matthew J.
Whitehead, dean at D. C. Tea
chers College, of Washington, D.
C., was added this week to the
list, of those suggested by
TIMES readers as possible re
placement for North Carolina
College’s Dr. Alfonso Elder.
The TIMES is currently con
ducting a straw vote aiuoung
its readers to determine senti
ment for the successor to Dr. I straw vote.
Elder, who is scheduled to :e I Sea WHITiHBAD
tire soon.
Dr. John Hope Franklin, pro
fessor at Brooklyn College, re
ceived additional support this
week in t>allota received.
His name, alotig with that of
Dr.. Charles Wesley, of Central
State College, Wilberforce, Ohio
and Dr. Helen Ebnonds, North
Carolina College professor, have
been suggested ao far in the
8 A
GETS INTERNATIONAL REC
OGNITION—Dr. Jamct Pcniicr-
frast, prefastor of chamitlry at
A. and T. Collagt, who thi* ium*
mar racalved the Ph.D degree
from Panntylvanis State Univer
sity, was lest manth honored by
the Sevanth International Con-
farence on Coordination Chem-
(stry at Stockholm, Sweden.
A paper, Thermo-Chcmlitry
af Cyano-Complexation in Fused
NltPatas", describing • raseiroh
he conducted at Penntylvania
State UnivertHy, wa» read be-
fare that Conference.
Ha is a gradvste of A. and T.
Callage and holds the master of
sclencaOdsgrae from Howard
University, He has stwdied under
a Pallowship at tha University
a# Minnasofa, and a National
Science Paundation Faculty Fal-
lawship at Pannsylyani* State
Unhrarslty
NCC Gridder in
All-Star Line-up
CHICAGO — North C rvlina
College's Charles (Bobo) Hin>
ton, who earned all-CIAA and
Courier All.A'-.erican honors
while playing for tha Eagles,
will be he s. la CIAA gridder
to perform with the Collegians
when the annual All-Star game
is played here Friday night.
Hinton, a 8' S", 240 tackle in
his seasons with North Caro
lina College, has bean signed
as a tackle by the Cleveland
Browns, of the National Foot
ball Laa)ua. /ia is a native of
Raleigh.
However, Informed sources
expect the All-8taz coaches to
use him as a datansive end
in Friday’s game.
The All-Stars will be meet
ing the pro cbampian Oraea
Bay Packers in the game, to
be plavad at Soldier's Field.
of Melvin V. White, Graham' Ne
gro, on July "tt,*30iS'Horton
said "I deem it necessary that-
the city dismiss him in order to
redeem itself In the eyes of it
citizens”,
Wombies assured the mayor
Sec RESIDENTS, 5-A
Housing Supplement
In Section € of
This Week’s Paper
( Looking for a new home?
I Want to know who to sae,
I where to look and wh»* can
be obtained in the way of new
homes in Durham? Than take
a look at the special supple
ment on housing spearing in
this week as section C of the
regulpr paper. You'll,^hid
seme worthwhile InfarmiKiion.
Violence Marks
Sit-in in S. C.
SPARTANBURG, S, C.—Vio
lence flared in tn^s loutliarn
city when 40 high school stu-
dtnts, members of three NAACP
Youth Councils,' staged sit-in
demanitratloni et Weolworth's
and Ki*at* stores, on Monday,
Joly 33. They were dented ser
vice at both stores.
One at the stubopti, all of
whom carried with niem capiat
of "Fight tor Freedom,'' Lang
ston Hughes' v>!ume on Ht» stery
of the NA^^P, was'/^uttad
by a Whlta'bysland««r at WaaW
warMi's, Fellawing thW
banca, the growp left .the stare
to loin thaJr Mlow spembars at
S. H. Kress.
About 1 ;00 p.m. a mob of over
2S0 whU»» gathered at the
Kress store to pretest tiie dem
onstration. The store manage
ment roped off the lunch coun-
fycutht to
viU the Kress store, police ar
rested tn Sl-year-oid white nan,
S. M. Sisk of Spartanburg^ for
csrrying a knife and two other
white men, Charles H. Builman
and Eliiarl Gbnter, for disorder
ly conduct.
Rev. Hsroi-J Joseph Cox, pas
ter of Garrison Chapel Baptist
Church, was al-o arreiiad and
held 20 houi'j lor "investiga
tion." An attempt l>y NAACP
Fllld Secretary I. DeQulncey
Newman to have Cox releases
on bsil was danied.
Tha clergyman was placed on
trtal tha feilowi'rg morning
charged with disorderly conduct.
Sec VIOLENCE, 5-A
Baptist Splinter
Group Plans For
First Convention
CINCINNATI, Ohio. Fin
al plana for the First Annual
Session of The Progrewive Bap-
tiat Convention of America are
being made by pastors of 27
of Piiiladelphia'a leading Bap
tist Qjurches, when It convenes
there Scpteml>er 4-0.
They are being joined by
pastors in the nearby cities as
well as the surburbs of Phila
delphia.
The Progressive Baptiat Con-
vention is a splinter group
which formed out of tfie spilt
In the N;ytloiMl Bai^idt Coni
vention last year.
In a recent conference called
by the Vicc Prealdent at Large,
Rev. L. V Booth of Cincinnati
and the Secretary, Dr. J. Carl
Mitchell of Huntington, W. Va.,
plans were completed for the
smWh running of the Convent-
Ion.
A group of twepty-four (24)
leaders of Philadel[ihk and vi
cinity met In Union Baptist
Church, Fitzwater and Martin
Streeta with Vice President and-
Secretary to assure them tbat
tier BAPTIST, 5 A
AMIZ Bishops
Gather in N. C.
SALISBURY — Leaders of
tha AME Zion Church convcrg-
op this All-American city
Tuesday and Wednesday for the
meeting of the Connectionai
Council which opened at Soldi
er'* Memorial Church Wednes
day night.
Rav. Herman Anderson, host-
paator, served as the ..master of
ceremonies and joined in wel
coming the visitors. Bishop W.
J. Walls, hoat-preiate also wel
comed the visitors, along with
the mayor.
The sessions of li»e Council
wiJUl get underway Thur.'idHy
morning with the reading of re
ports from the geneml officers
of the church. 'CTiese report^
will give the bishops and the
membCTs of the various boards
the needs of the church.
biahop Walls has made It
known that the polity of the
church needs to l>e looked at
very closely and it is believed
tiiat such nwtters as puipit de-
cbriiih and wear along with tiw
general order of services, as it
applies tp all the rhursltos of
the denomination will be studi
ed.
The Board of Bishops, presi
ded over by Bishop Walls will
bee BISHOPS, b A