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VOLUME 39 — No. 51
DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1962
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OUT OF COURT
Greensboro Hospital Votes To
Admit Negro Pliysician to Staff
GREENSBORO — Officials ^
of Moses Cone Memorial has- Greensboro hospitals Ijsted
pital announced early Wednes- defendants m the case brought
day that the hospital has voted Negro doctors and their
to admit Negro physicians to f^e Negroes . contend^
practicc as member of its staff. i since the hMpital; w^s
Hospital authorities said aft^r I‘=°"s‘«'ucted party 6u( o lund»
tjie announcement that the move provided for in the HiIl*Burton
bad been planned since early
this year but that it was held
up to await the outcome of a
trial in which a group of Negro
plaintiffs had sought to get a
federal court order forcing the'
nodical facility to admit Negro
pihysicians and their patients.
,A District court ruled against
the plaintiffs.
Moses Cone" was one of two
Raise For
EGTC, Name
nge Sought
stqte
ELIZABETH CITY — Eliza-
City 9tate Teachers Col-
JEIL >
Wt a itew
bt!PtHn#g''ff thfc 'trustee* tecom-
mendfetiong “take” with
budget officials.
Increase in salary faculty, a
new?] name for the school —
were the major items
piacuigcd- by -the- school’-3 tr«s»
tees in their regular ^meeting
Here last week.
Although there were few de
tails available on the size of in
crease trustees proposed for the
tollege’s faculty, informed ob-
act, that it was uncdiistltution-
al for the hospitals : to refuse
Negro patients and physicians.
However, JudgQ Edwin S^n-
ley refused to rule on ttte e^-
stitutional issue and syid the
hospitals could select patients
and practicing physicians.
The hospital’s section voting
to admit Negro physipians wag
seen as a “out of court victory”
for the Negro plaintiffs
Dr Andilbw Simkins,
prominent ■ Greensboro deptist
and one of the plaintiffs,
pressed pleasure over the hil-
ing and said he would act Im
mediately to apply for admission
to the hospital’s practicing
staff.
However, officials of .Wesliij
Long Mer'.oriali the other hos
pital involved In the suit, said
See HOSPrTAU. 2-A ;
IS Cents
PRICE
Alcohol Content, Exposure Could Reason Spurs
Have Caused Death, Says Coroner Picketing, Sit-iiu
Dfirha**! ■# 'w » ▼ ^
At Seven Cafes
eo-Mis at A. a:.d T. Col-
get Mo Hi* Christmas
aarly •* they visited the
iA- «nd T. College greenhouse
^here a bumper crop ef select
pol'.seltas was on display.
The girls, who arc (left 10
right) Christine Crutchfield
(Roxboroif, Baverly Brown
(Abingdon, Va.) and Julia King
MONEY WOES BEHIND CRACK-UP
C?illf.
Money trou-
pareat crack-up.
Future
to 6et New
RALEIGH — Sister Gary
(t,he Rev Mrs ' ivfable Gary
Philpot) will have tf new pUlpit
here soon. * ■'
Plans were revealed'tfiis wetk
by officers of the Wesieyati
'.'•'rtre! young heavyweight, a
taw months ago one of the di-
vision’^ most promising fighters,
W«S committed to the state hos-
|),»ital here this week for an
.'!',ihdejinite period.”
. ^perior Court judge Philip
B/ Lynch ordered the commit-
Ijfeent after two doctors testi-
that Machen was an “acute
sdWzophreniG.”
■ I Machen was taken to a hos
pital for observation last week
servers say it is “sizeable.” , 1 j
The Trustees also want the 8 new church structure to be wr on the freeway with a load
achool’s name change. The erected on the corner of Eden-,;ed sun and a .suicide note
change would simple involve ton and Pettigre^v streets. Mrs Eddie Machen said last
dropping the word “Teachers”, Wesleyan is the church form- week that her husband’s mental
so that the new name would be ed by Sister Gary after she was troubles stemmed from fin-
Elizabeth City State College. ousted by the AME Zion Church anrfal worries.
President Walter Ridley ex- last year in a dispute over her She said that when Heavy-
pJained, that t]his change was | transfer. | weight champion Sonny Liston
proposed because the school, in Nearly 150 members of her refused to consider him as a
addition to training teachers, former church, Grace AME possible opponent, he began to
also emphasises its arts and Zion, left with Sister Gary in fall apart.
sciences curriculum. I the dispute to form the new p She revealed that although
The trustee board also asked Wesleyan congregation. [Eddie has won $300,000 in pur-
for funds to erect a home for The congregation has been ses in his eight years in the ring,
president Ridley at the col- meeting in Hood and Whitley he is Iwoke now and has been
lege. I Soe SISTBR, CAKY, 2-A i MACHEN, 2-X
Jells Court
Durham police at mid-wetk
filed formal charges ef murder
rgiintt thi^^sband of • woman
who died after several hours
ouldoort In sub-fraeslng weather
early thU week.
Rufus Cates, 42, was being
held without bond after charges
were preferred against him
Wednesday afternoon.
A Durham woman who re-
maini'd outdoors for several
hours in sub-freezing tempera-
ture.s last week was buried this
week in graveside rites at Beech
wood cemetery.
I She was Mrs Annie Bell
' Cates, 42, whose body was
found early Saturday morning
on a porch at 318 Wake Place.
The Rev Linwood Daye of
ficiated in the graveside rites
held for her on Tuesday after
noon.
County Coroner Dr D R
Perry said the woman died from
acute alcoholism and exposure
to the extreme cold.
He said that in addition to
I tne fatally dangerous amount of
aclohol content discovered in
her body, Mrs Cates had ap
parently remained outdoors for
several hours in below freezing
temperatures.
The temperature, which ' had
hovered below freezing for
several days during one of the
city's worst cold waves in his
tory, dropped to 20 on the night
she died.
When discovered, her face
bore a few bruises, but Dr.
Perry said these were obvioMsljr
not severe enough to,
caused her death.
He said W* tests
iitrntim ^1
, I
. islillliiHi''
Autlwritiei, :,3
Aeerchea-wfor Mrs Cates’
band, theorized that the woi
had become groggy, went Orfto
the porch at the Wake Plhce
address and fell into a coh««-
like sleep. '
A call to police by neighbors
S C
Soath Carolina dent of 313 Wake Place where
(Cherlott'tville, V>.; Join the
TIMES staff in wishing its
readers a MERRY CHRIST
MAS.
Daughter Watches
Raleigh Father
Shoots to Death
Mother of Four
[ Downtown restaurants in Dur-
Jiam and Greensboro had no
room for integrated groups
staging ‘ Chriitmas spirit’,’ dc-
monstratiiins against segrega
tion Ihis week.
In addition, an attorney for a
Greensboro restaurant which ex.
eludes Nogroes told members of
an integrated church wliich had
asked for an end to segregation
at the firm to "practice what
you preach."
Demonstrations were staged in
Durham by two groups this
week.
Teams of NAACP and CORE
: members, all integrated, were
j turned away from seven down
town Durham restaurants on
‘ Tuesday “Christmas spirit” de-
monsl^iitiuns.
The iirnis which refused them
wetw S and W cafteria, Festa
Room of the Holiday Inn, the
Oriental, Blue Light, Howard
Johnson’s, The Palms, and Har
vey's Cafeteria.
Members of the Covenant
RALEIGH — A six year old,
girl reported to police early I
this week that she saw her Community Church, an into-
father shoot her mother to gratt'd. interdenominational
death early Sunday as the church, led picketing of S and
climax to an argument between ^ cafeteria for four days tliis
the two. week in order to “bear wit-
ne.qs” to the meaning of Christ-
Six year old Patricia Lee, mas. ,
horrified witness to the shoot-j Approximately eight members
ing, reported to poHee she saw of the young church marched
her father send a ,22 caliber rifle i„ front of the swank S and W
bullet crashing througli her located in ■ new glass waANs'ifW'
mother’s chest. | insurance firm bulldirj >.
Wake County police were chapel Hill St
holding the girl’s father, Eddie Tije pickets carried sli
ee. Jr., 40, of 1100 South State in(}ing to the denlel oJ*
'‘rcet, without privilege of pg(r«nU -
The tmHe HW f«ur
According to the - girl's story,
the nhootlng occured after an
argument between her parents
Sue SHOOTS, 2^A
University of Soath Carolina dent of 313 Wake Place where .t^mSOn Woil^
offered the issue of administra-1 the bod« was-found,; l^d to
tive remedy as a defense t^s | dineoverev of Mrs Cnles. f
week in a case being brought
against it by a Negro girl seek
ing admission to the school.
Attorneys for the University' "''‘^^‘’ors to call the police
asked that the case be di.smissed
because the plaintiff had failed
to exhaust administrative re-
Mrs
noises,
trying
Johnson said she heard |
thought someone was
to break in and asked
ST. JOSEPH'S ChhlSTMAS
SPEAKER — Dr. Harry V.
Richardson, President of Inter-
medies in a written argument
filed here Tuesday.
The action is being brought
J>y Henri Monteith, 17. of
denominational Theological Se-;|%oiumbia, who is now a frM»i-
minary, of Atlanta, will be | gj the Coilege of Notre
IN MEREDITH CASE
RFK-Miss.Deal Claimed
NEW YORK — Despite public |
vows of defiance, Mississippi' ^Sreod on a course of action In
Gov. Ross Barnett made a secret ® phone call with President
deal with Attorney General Kennedy on Sept. 29. He pro-
Robert Kennedy to enroll Ne- *oised the President that the
gro James Meredith at the Uni- state highway patrol would
versily of Mississippi, a nation- maintain law and ordei:.
al magazine said today. i following day, however, I
Barnett, according to an Barnett again called Robert
article in the current issue of Kennedy and suggested a new
1/Ook Magazine, conferred on the, plan. The magazine gave this
phone with Kennedy through- account of the Attorney Gen-
put the four days preceding the ® angry reaction; j
Sept. 30 riot at Ole Miss, and! “Kennedy then shifted to a
proposed a series of plans that new tack. Unless the Governor
would allow Meredith to enter cooperated, he said, and helped
the university. I nwintain law and order while
His negotiations with Ken- Meredith went on campus, the
nedy, the magazine said, were President would go oil television
unknown to Mississippi’s segre-1 and tell 4he country that
gationist leaders whom Barnett^ Barnett had - broken his word.'
Kennedys, the magazine credited
the efforts of Thomas Watkins,
a 52 year old Mississippi cor
poration lawyer, with helping
to avert a “massacre” at the
university.
Watkins, the article said, suc
cessfully pleaded with Barnett
advisers were' urging the Gov
ernor to encourage resistance
fOr restraint while .some other
against Federal forccs as the
riots began at Oxford.
Look noted that a group of
Mississippi leaders had sccretly
planned to form a wall of un
armed bodies at t’lC university
“that would not yield until
knocked down and trod upon by
Fedcrals . , Some resolved to
stand until shot dowa ”
The magazine quoted Dr M
Ncy Williams, a director of the
Citizens’ Council and adviser to
Barnett, who declared: j
“In retrospect. I’m thankful
I that 5.000 10,00 maybe 15.000
to 20,000 fellow Mississlppians
- . - didn’t go there (Oxford) and get.
plan several times, but finally between the Governor and the , killed." I
publicly encouraged to bar
Meredith from the school.
The primary aim of the
Governor’s proposals was “to
allow Barnett to be over
whelmed by the federals while
crying ‘Never’ for the segre
gationists’ benefit,’ the magazine
declared.
According to Look, the Gov
ernor changed his proposed
To prove it, the President would
■-tell all about the behind-
scenes dickering.
“This had a devastating ef
fect. The Governor’s resistance
seemed to melt away. Again and
again. Barnett asked that the
President say nothing on TV
thfit would unveil the nature
of the secret phone calls.”
In addition to tile secret deal
guest speaker at a special
Christmas eve program to be
held at St. Joseph's AME
Church on Dec. 24 et 11 p. m.
Special music for the service
will be furnished by the St.
Joseph Boys Choir.
Prince Edward
Case In Court
Again Jsn. 9
NEW YORK — NAACP law
yers will go to court again on
Jan. 9 in the 12 year old case
against the Prince Edward
County, Va., public schools. The
hearing will be held in Balti
more, Md , in the Fourth C j
cuit Court of Appeals.
The case against this Virginia
school system was initiated in
1950 and was one of the five
which led to the Supreme
Court’s school desegregation de
cision of 1954. The Prince Ed
ward County Board of Super
visors closed the schools in
1958 in anticipation of a court
mandate ordering integration. A
system of private schools for
white children was instituted,
supported by public tax monies.
Negro children have been with
out formal training since the
schools were closed.
On Ju!^ 25 of this year Di
strict CouA Judge Oren R.
Lewis ruled that the State of
See PRINCE EDWARD. 2-A
Dame for Women in Baltimore,
Md.
1 She is the second Negro to
I seek to eii or white state-«up
' ported universities in South
Carolina, Harvey Gantt, of
Charleston, now has a suit pend
ing against Clemson for denying
him admission.
The University’s brief, pre
pared by State Attorney Gener
al Daniel McLeod, not only
Spe REMEDIES, 2 A
Harassment Of
Meredith Continues
OXFORD, Miss. — Harrass-
ment continued to plague Miss
issippi's lone Negro student
James Meredith this week.
The young Air Force veteran
was aWestlad by police for a
traffic violation when ha went
to visit his family in Jackson
last week and, according to'him,
''treated like a dog.”
Later this weak when ha pre
pared to leave the campus for
the Christmas holidays, he dis
covered a dead coon on top ef
his car. The animal was re-
movad by federal marshals be
fore ha reached the ear, how-
COLUMBIA, 8. C. — Clem
son College trustees are general
ly in favor of keeping the
school open if the Court rules
•hrt Harvey Gantt, Charleston
Negro, must be admitted by the
school.
A poll of the school’s trustees,
cenducated by the State, daii7
newspaper here, showed that a
majority of the trustees would
be opposed to closing the school
in any eventuality.
Gantt's suit for admission is ^
under advisement by Federal
District Court Judge C. C.
Wyche, He Is expected to make
a ruling soon. I
Contacted In tha poll were I
Strte Sen, Edgard Brown, of King,
Barnwell, former Gov. James F. rallies
Byrnes, former U. S. senator
Charles E Denlel and L. D. Hol
mes, of Johnston.
City
Area Residents
Dpen Boycott
j ELIZABETH Cii V — A boy-
,' cult aimed at securing equai
Job opportunities in this area
has l>een launched by three
unti-segregation groups this
week.
Spokesmen for the sponsor
ing groups the Aliiermarie Im
provement. Association, Pasquo
tank County Chapter of the
NAACP, and the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference
revealed that Negroes of the
area have been urged to buy
only at seven stores at which
members of the race have been
hired as clerks or given promo
tions.
The boycott is tied with the
scheduled visit to this area
Thursday of Martin Luther
Jr , who is to addre.>is
in Hertford and Eden-
ton,
Edenton has been the scene
of a year long struggle against
many forms of segregation by
Negro groups.
frr-imrERs m cowrt --
Bom* el tha 100 dsfandants is
last week's stl-iB Kiat tl
Greensbora, If. C. shown in
ceurltoom duxing raceu. All
of Uta young wroiata wota
dresses and tlit men
woca dMtk Upon app*«l
ef P. B. McKissick, eounsel