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N,& EQUAL JOK CLAM IS PW
Foiir In Sit-In Sent To County Roads For 30 Days
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$ay Leaders of
Mrd Claim
n *; -l)urham Negro leaders unani-
muiuiy ae^icriueU dciiberaie
ly "misloaaiag" a statement is-
^ed .ixiuu, lue Uoveruor.s ot-
l^c« fast, week showing tbe per-
Otatiyji! oi Megrocs employea by
|he tiiate oj i>orih Carolina.
'irie sialbmeiit, piepaied by
the l^e^uael division anu giveu
fc Obvernor Sanford by Person-
^rector Waiter Fuller, pur-
'foi’ted to show that Negroes
'firfer^„ not being aiscriminatud
by me slate'm einpioy-
Ihent.
convinced that the state-
l^ient' made by li'uller is mis-
lAidfiig. it is obviously design-
to create a .nusieading im-
^jNr^idn. Uur state can't make
fl'bgress if we are going to per-
IdUt this sort of thing to be
•4dhe."
This was the reaction of
jBhti H. 'Wheelei*, chairman of
tie Durham Committee on Ne-
!$irb iAilairs.
' cohimeht was Echoed by
jvdi4s of other Negro leaders
t&is 'week.
White, chairman of the
#tUi>loy(ment subconrunittee of the
’fjbinAnittee 'on Negro Affairs;
i^o 'agreed that the statement
' "misleading.”
is* general kriowledge that
fl00foea are not' hired by the
M^'except in' isdlated cases in
flits' beyond those requiring
skills. * - -
7’1 am sure thtit if an artalysis
'made' to the rep«^li,'-ii«
dis-
lyThi^uTM Uhiawoi
VOLUME 38 — No. 32 DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1962
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2 Arrested In Abortion
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Two Durhamites were arrest
ed on charges of criminal abort
WILKIN9
RALLY SCHEDULED — Th*
CorignM of Racial EquaUty
(CORE) and lb* NAACP har*
sohedaM a "FrMdom Rally"
for Friday night ai St. Mark
III eonnacHott wUh th* evattmi
CORE - NAACP MMi^i0ii
hffUhikt 4«MgTt«atiaa tti buc-
REV. COX
secratary of tb« NAACP,
JamM Farm*r, national di>
ractor of CORE, and th« R«t.
B. EMen Cox, N. C. Field mc-
r«tary for CORE, bar* baon
inviiad tm tba main apoiAart.
Th* rally it fchadiilod for
4«iy nieiit at St. JoMpb AME
m
fUALEIGH The State of
brt^ Caroiina last week re-
28^ a report purporting to
iW that North Carolina does
ntk, discriminate in the hiring
Of Negroes in state jobs.
report, given to Governor
Sanford Friday, said that
' number of Negroes em-
]^byed by the state is two per
cent higher than the percenrt-'
.4ge of Negroes in the state!
jpopuUtion. I
The report showed that the'
ftate employs 27,770 white per-1
tons and 26,381 Negroes.
The report failed to include'
a breakdown on the various,
ty^s of jobs. However, about
20,000 of the Negroes listed in
the report work inf the public
•ehools as teachers, supervisors,
janitors and maids.
The report was prepared
uiider the direction of former
Sec JOBS, 5-A
f ? iH V' j H (I.
L j ’ If* '
Approxim*t61y UO
from Baptist churches thrdu^h
out North Carolina registered
Tuesday for the annual State
Sunday School and Baptist
Training Union convention.
The, twin converrtion* are be
ing held at Mt. Vernon Bap
tist Church, in Durham.
The meetings opened on Tues
day and were scheduled to cont-
tinue through Thursday.
T. B. Giles, of Haleigh, and
Rev. Paul Warren, of Lumljer-
ton. were heard in the major
addresses of the day’s opening
session. Giles is president of the
Wake Sunday School convent
ion'.
Giles i^ech was based on the
convention theme, “educating to
evangelize,” and Warren de
livered the annual aermon at
Tuesday’s closing session.
During the afternoon of the
opening day’s program, lectures
On topics r^elating to the Sun
day School, BTU and Vacation
Bible School, were given.
During the afternoon of the
ot>efilrtc dky’s ^ program, classes
on •'vawJouswa^iect* oa Sunday
School, BTU and Vacation
Bible School were held.
The classes were led by E.
B. Turner, Mrs. A. L. Filmore,
Frank Dalton,, James Raye and
Miss Miriam Ricks.
Classes were expected to
continue on Wednesday.
Also scheduled for Wednes
day was the convention’s key
note address, slated for delivery
by Rev. M. M. Morgan. He
was scheduled to speak at noon.
On Wednesday afternoon, di
strict presidents of Sunday
School and BTU convention
were to hold discussions. Rev.
R. M. Pitts, of Winston-Salem,
president of the State Baptist
convention, was to make an ap
pearance on Wednesday.
Wednesday night was to be
devoted to the BTU, and the
state president James T. Haw
kins was to deliver the annual
address as the feature of the
evening. Also to be heard was
See BAPTIST, page 5-A
Walls Renamed
Chief of AMEZ
Bishops Board
SALISBURY—The 1962 session
of the Concctional Council of the
Hoard of Bishops, AME Zion
Church, closed its business spssion
at Soldiers Memorial Church, Rev.
Herman Anderson, pastor, Friday
afternoon.
Tile meeting brought to the
city 12 active bishops, 3 retired
bishops and 12 general officers,
along with the executive Ixiard of
the Woman’s Home and Foreign
Missionary Society. Many of the
administrative boards of the de
nomination met here also.
The program of the Concctional
CV>uncll was built around the
theme, “Love God and Church bet
ter thw Yoursdf.”. It was a trl
|((wdl.who M re^rded and r«vl
«d ,8s th^ ;&ther of Uvingstoi
^doUege, and-lh«.R«v. T^ Hi Lomax
,«Mui i»-tha>/.fit:h^ Theo
logiqalvSeii4»^,y 'i; row'
^ W- ij^iMecied
Cliairituin ftf the-Qoird of mshops,
ing Bishop W. A. Hiihard. Bikhoil
H. X Medford, rejected aut-iee'
rctafy, will ««rve a» secretary dur
ing Bishop Walls’ tenure.
The pxecutivo committee. Wo
man’s Home and Foreign Mission
ary Society worked on plans for
the quadrennial meeting, sched
uled for St. Louis, Mo.; August 10,
1963.
Many of the people who attended
the three-day meet remained here
to attend the General Christian
Education Convention, which start
ed Sunday, in the new half-million
dollar Auditorium-Music Building.
Many of the nation’s outstanding
churchmen '#ill be featured at the
meet.
Quartet Refuses
Tq Pay $25 Fine
rr
ion here last week.
They are Mrs. Thelma Brooks,
3*, and George Prince, Jr.
Mrs. Brooks has been charged
with performing an abortion;
and Prince with procuring and I
aiding in an abortion. I
iBonds were made available i
for the two after police learned!
tiiat the abortion victim had i
been declared out of danger at j
N>. C. Memorial hospital. ;
Bond for Mrs. Brooks was .set I
at $2,000, and a $500 bond was
set for Prince.
The case came to ligiit when
the abortion victim, an unwed
10 year old girl, was taken to
the hospital in critical comii-
tion last week.
Her condition was reported
Improved at mid-week.
For "Trespass
Four persons who were con
victed on charges 9f trespass
while seeking service at Howard
Johnson's restuarant near Dur
ham Sunday have been given
30 days on the County roads.
The four included Jocelyn
McKissick, of Durham, Spelman
College freshman; Guytanna
I Horton, qt Pittsboro, North
Carolina College junior; the
Rev. Waldo Mead, divinity stu
dent at Duke; and Jon Schaef
fer, Seattle, Washington.
The girls were sent to the
Counly home to work out
their 30 day sentence while the
men were assigned to the state
prisons department for work on
the county roads.
The quartet was fined $25
each and cost of courts Mond'ay
after their conviction, in Re
corder’s Court. A notice of ap
peal was immediately filed by
Iheir attorney, Floyd B. Me*
Ki^sick, father of Joycelyn.
However, after the four ap
peared in Superior Court on
Wednesday and asked that their
appeals be withdrawn, they
were assigned to the County to
serve out 30 day sentences.
All four were arrested on
Sunday following attempts to
See FOUX, page S-A
INTEGRATION STnUCtCLE
FOCUSES ON JAIL — Guy
tanna Horton (c«nt»r) and
Jocclyn McKisfick w&v* from
top floor of Durham Co. Jail
(photo at top) to falloiw mam^r*
of th« Intagration movamant
(photo at bottom) who
gatbarod on tfaa par Ing lot
diractly iindar tbair calls at
tba aaat aMo e{ tba Jail and
aang splrltuala to booat tboit
spirits. Th* gtrls wara groot-
od aach night of thalr stay la
Jail by a group who sang to
tbam. Thay roapondad by aing*
iaq in raturn front tbair ealls.
DELEGATE
Jasper McCormick, of 508
and-a half Abliot St., is one of
Durham’s delegates to the youth
conference of the A. M. E. Zion
church now underway at Living
stone College in Salisbury.
McComick is representing the
Christian Education Department
of St. Mark A. M. E. Zion
church.
Pitt County's Highest Honor
Student Applies for ECC
Laura Mae Leary, 17 year old
Pitt County high school gradu
ate, has applied for admission
to East Carolina Colege, It was }
learned this week.
Miss Leary submitted written (
applications to the collego three >
weeks ago, but as of mid week,
she had received no reply from |
the college.
She has applied for the re-'
gular term and hopes to enroll
in liie .tool's business admin-
Is'.rat'im department.
K.iKt Carolina College has yet
to admit a Negro student on a
full time basis.
Negroes are currently attend
ing East Carolina College, al-
ti
MISS LEARY
SUNDAY SCHOOL - BTU
CONVENTION SCENE —
Shown is a icene fror
tha opening worsh^ sorrtoo
bald during tha Stata Saptiay
Sunday School and BTU dMf-
▼aatiM which was h*Id this
WMk in Durham at Mt. Vax*
noa Baptist Church,
Five Augusta
Boys Receive
Jail Terms
AUGIJSTA, Ga. — Five teen
age Negro boys. Indicted for
murder in connection with the
death of a 16 year old white Isd
here last April, iiave been sen
tenced to terms of from one to
ten years imprisonment, on picas
of guilty to leswr charges.
Their sentences. Imposed by
Superior Court Judge F. Fred
erick Kennedy, on July 31, fol
lowed convkition last week of
Frank Dumas, Jr., 20, who re
ceived a life scntcnce on recom-
m«natlon of the Jury, The pro-
.tc AUGUSTA, pace 5 A
though the school has yet to
admit one on a full-time basis.
See ICC, page 5-A
Jamaica Saluted
On Independence
KINGSTON, JAMAICA —
Roy Wilkins, executive secre
tary of the National Association
for the Advancement of
Colored People. Monday ex
tended to Sir Alexander Busta-
mcntc, Premier of Jamaica, and
to the people of that country
the warn> greetings and sinwere
felicltCitions of a’fi, the mem
bers of the NAACP upon the
occasion of the independence of
Jamaica, Aug. 6, 1962.”
The NAACP leader, who Is
attending the Independence Day
celebrations In the island coun
try, noted in his greetings that
"for many years the NAACP
and Negro American citizens
generally have received support,
encouragement and inspiration
from Jamaicans who have come
See JAMAICA, pagt 9-A , ^
MISS HORTON
MISS McKISSICK
NAACP Praises Kennedy For His
Statement on Albany Struggle
NEW YORK — The National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People "deeply ap
preciates your forthright state
ment on Alljany, Ga. "NAAfCP
Executive Secretary Roy Wilkini;
said in a Iclegram sent to Pre
sident Kennedy, Aug. 2.
The telegram was in prulso of
the President's characterization
(of the Albany situation as “com
I pletely unsatlsfatlory" and the
attitude of the city govormnent
as "wholly Inexplicable” In.re-
sponae to it ciucstion raised at
his press conference, .^ug. 1.
Kcnnc-dy made his remarit»
within 48 hours after the Na
tional AsBociation for the Ad-
vanecnuent lender had sent a wire
calli^ upon the President “iO'
speak out 1n condcnrmation of
the persecution ... of the Rev.
Dr. Martin Luther King Md his
associates for peacefully protest
ing racial injustice.”
In his press conference, the
President said: ‘‘I find it wholly
Inexplicable why the city rnurr-
cil of Albany will not »lt down
See ALBANY, pHgc 5 A
FIRST SERVICES IN
NEW BUILDING
InMtal terrioM in tha nowly
eompletad Hickory Grove
church building are (cbadulad
to b* hM on Sunday, tt was
mncruaotd this weak.
A now atructura has roeant-
Ir bean eomplotad for tha
ebureb, lockted In Oranga Coua-
*T.
The umual Homecoming pro-
..Oin tad tba grand opening a
Mia new church structure wilt
be celebrate the completion vi
tha building on Sunday, tha
Bar. J. Manlay, pastor of tba
oburch, revealed.
Two services are on tap foe
tba day, one at one O'clock p.
in., and a aaoond at thrM p-
m. Rev. Manley will bo tte
main spoakev ter tlie oae
O'clec program, aAd the Rev.
A. L. TlwaiipMti, af Fltst Cid>
Soe FIRST, 5-A