Fourteen Durham
Girls Seen In
Sigma Deb Ball
The Sigma Gamma Rho Sor
ority held its tenth Debutante
Ball on Friday evening, Decem
ber 15, in the Hillside High
gymnasium.
Fourteen lovely girls were
presented. Mrs Frances Eagle-
son, registrar at North Carolina
College, delivered the welcome
address.
W. L Bradsher, principal of
Lyon Park School, introduced
the debutants.
-Emancipation
Continued from front page
at 11 O’clock at the Gethsemane
Baptist Church of South Roxboro
Street.
The program will celebrate the
100th anniversary of the famed
document issued b.v President
Abraham Lincoln. It set free all
of the American Negro slaves.
This year’s program for the cel
ebration will follow those of past
year’s sponsored by the Alliance.
The Emancipation document will
be read by Mrs. Ocia Brown, of
White Rock Baptist Church.
Brief message.s from local busi
ness, civic, educational and other
community organizations will be
given by various spokesmen. In
cluded among tho.se '.vill be spokes
men for the beauticians, Durham
Business and Proff.ssional Chain,
the Durham Committee on Negro
Arfairs. Mechanics and Farmers
Bnnk. Mutual Savings and Loan
A.«iociation, the NA.\CP, North
Carolina College, North Carolina
Mutual Life Insurance Company,
and the public schools.
The Rev. C. E. McLester, pas
tor of Mor^head Avenue Baptist
Church will introduce Rev. Rol
and. Rev. A. L. Thompson, presi
dent of the Alliance, will conduct
the program. Rev. V. E. Brown,
pastor of Gethsemane, will be host
for the program.
The speaker, Rev. Roland, is a
native of S. C. and a graduate of
Howard University. He has stud-
THE CAROLINA TIMES
3.A—DURHAM, N. C. SATURDAY, DBCiMBIR 3f, IMf
Three Children Injured In La. Church Bombinf
SIGMA GAMMA RHO DEBS—
1st TOW from left to right:
Sandra Knuckler, Faye Mc
Cray, Sandra Wray, Beatrice
Murry (queen), Barbara Bel
lamy, Jacquline Davis, Cora
Coles, Shirley Henderson.
2nd row; Buih While, Gladys
M'cDonald, Laura Brewer,
Joyce Suggs, Jo Ann Martin
and Barbara Wade.
NEW ORLEANS. La. —
Three children were cut by fly
ing glass and twenty-ftve nar
rowly escaped death when their
church and parsonage were
I bombed in Birmingham, Ala
bama, on December 14. The
Federal Government must help
to stop this violence and bring
the culprits to Justice.”
This was part of a telegram
sent to U S Attorney General
Robert F Kennedy by Metho
dist Bishop Edgar A Love,
Baltimore, president of the
Southern Conference Education
al Fund (SCBF), after the latest
act of terrorism in Birmingham.
The bishop urged Kennedy to
“act at once.”
The bombing was the third
in recent years at Bethel Bap
tist Church, formerly pastored
by the Rev. Fred L. Shuttles-
worth, militant integration lead
er in Alabama. The minister and
his family barely missed being
killed or seriously injured in the
first bombing in 1956.
The Rev. Mr Shuttlesworth,
is director of SCEF, a South-! tragedy.’*
wide integrationist organization I At the request of Mr. Shulltes-
with headquarters in New Or-1 worth, SCBF and other groups
loans. He has sparked the civil j began raising money to repair
rights drive in Birmingham as heavy damage to the church, the
Queen Sabrena Cooper (front, center) and King Bernard Morrison (center, rear) with other children in Sigma contest.
ied further at Boston University.
Rev. Roland held a pastorate in
Charleston, S. C. before coming,
lo Durham to accept the pastorate j
of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church. He!
resigned in December of 1900 and.
IS TO mp roM
Durham Residents of Duncan St.
Display Lane of Christmas Trees
Early in December, the resi- Jr. of Pekoe Street, Mrs Janie
dents of Duncan Street were call
ed together in a meeting at the
home of Dr. and Mrs Ezra L ] Mr ^ and Mrj, Robert L
T&i!tcn for thu jai*
Sandra Cooper
Is Sigma Queen
The Sigma Gamma Rho
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ganizing for a neighborhbod
project during the Chri.stmas
Season. The idea of a uniform
outdoor Christmas Tree display,
was presented by Mrs Totton.
This plan was received with a
great deal of enthusiasm and
Induct Thirteen
the residents agreed to cooperate
in the project. A committee was
appointed to select trees of uni
form size and arrangement. On
Saturday morning, December 15,
1962 at 11 o’clock, all the resi-j On Saturday, Ifecember 8, Tau
dents, including the two families ^ Psi Chapter of Omega Psi Phi
whose corner lots boarder on Fraternity officially inducted
Duncan Street, were found sett- “13” new brothers into the
ing out and decorating trees. Fraternity. The induction cere-
The selecting and purchasing of i monies tooic place late Satur-
M Wheeler, Mrs D L Georgq^ Sorority the first time a group of
Mr. and Mii Charlie Thomas,''children in a queen and
king contest. Subrena Cooper
>^hool was
crowned que^.'‘ Bernard Mor
rison as king
The following children are:
Phiilip Carrington, Abbie Coving
ton, Marsha Edwards, Phyllis
Harrington, Faith Lambeth,
Cherye Ruffin. PhyMis Vanhook,
mer, Mr aid Mrs L B. Frasii
er and Dr.'i and Mrs Ezra L
Totton all ^f Duncan Street.
NCC Qmegai
trees were made by Totton, and
L B Frasier supervised the
other activities. That evening at
5:30 o’clock twelve beautiful
fir trees were protu.sely lighted
on Duncan Street from Pekoe to
Nelson. This was a cooperative
program of the Duncan Street
neighborhood that was conceiv
ed by one energetic, progressive
person Mrs Christine Totton.
The re.sidents are inviting the
entire citizenry of Durham lo
visit their “Cliristmas Tree
Lane.” Plans and the executing
of these plans were done in an
day afternoon and was followed
by an extravagant banquet at
the Biltmore Hotel. Dr. Charles
Ray, advisor to the chapter, was
guest speaker at the banquet.
The Saturday festivities . were
capped off by a lively parly in
the Science Building, Everyone
enjoyed lliis gala affair.
The thirteen ‘'neophyte”
brothens of Tau Psi. who came
from all parts of North Caro
lina, Virginia, and Massachu.setts,
are as follows Richard Mizelle,
Allen Williams and Clifton John-
Elvin Dawson, Renee Decatur,
Manley Michaux, Otis Scott,
Lennox Smith and Henry Tyson.
Lenoir Freshman
Gets Scholarship
RALEIGH — Miss Eunice F
Fox, a freshman of Lenoir, was
awarded the first Catherine
Hughes Waddell Scholarship. An
amount of sixteen hundred dol
lars ($1600) for achieving the
highest score on special tests
administered by the college was
her reward.
A graduate of Freedman
High School where she was
valedictorian of her class. Miss
Fox was awarded scholarship
certifictes in mathematics, algc
bra, biology, and physics for
four consecutive years.
For the school year 1961-62,
she was unanimously chosen
“Senior of the Year” by her
high school classmates.
Miss Fox's hobbies are grow
ing pot flowers and reading.
before," he pointed out. “Our
economic withdrawal from the
downtown area has been ef-,
tective. The Federal Court ls|
about to decide the suit to open
the schools. The parks are
closed because of a court order
to integrate them. |
“More Negroes are register
ing to vote and are voting. The
Negro vote was crucial in chang
ing the form of city government
from three-man rule to control
by a nine-man council and
mayor. The present city com
missioners, including Police
Commissioner Bull Connor, are
angry over this because it will
mean loss of power for them.
“Negroes have suffered more
in Birmingham than in any other
spot on the globe outside of
South Africa. I have alaways
been a symbol of the Negro |
freedom movement here and
that is why the church where I
used to be pastor has been
bombed again. This is Birming
ham’s shame and America’s
home when the bomb went o£i
in the street between the housi
and the church.
Two other children we:
by flying glass as they a:
ins
president of the Alabama Chris-
lain Movement for Human
Rights (ACMHR).
parsonage, and the home of the
chairman ol the trustee board
oi the church. OUier houses In
Shuttlesworth called the most the vicinity were also dantvaged
recent bombing "an act of ven-1 by the blast, which dug a hole
geance and retnliation.” He two feet deep in 29th Avenue
said the segregationists are North. ■
“frustrated |;>ocwuso of the gains One of the children injured
being made by Negroes in Bir- was KhnW.v MftWilliamt, 2 .year
mingham." ^ old granddaughter of the trustee
“We have been having many' chairman, James R Revia, who
victories and Negroes are going has been acllvc in ACMHR. The
places where they never went child was sleeping at the Revis
others rehearsed a Xmas pl>]
in the basement of the church
Half the windows in the churcl
were broken, the ceiling in th
balcony was blown out, the front
doors ripped off, and the real
wall was cracked by the ex
plosion.
Gas, electric and telephoni
services in the vicinity wen
knocked out. Windows weri
broken in homes as far as fou)
or five blocks away. An auto
mobile was blown from tiM
driveway into the kitchen at th
parsonage, now occupied by th
Rev. V C Provitt, new paitoi
of the church.
A neighbor who was In
parked car nearby, waiting foi
his wife to join him and go b
visit friends, saw four whlM
men in an automobile place th
bomb in the street and spee
awuy. He followed them fol
several blocks but was unabU
lo keep up with them.
Tiie last time the church wai
bombed, almost a year ago, p
lice officials hinted that It wa
done by Negroes themaelveb
Leaders of the integration mov^
inent scoffed at this. H
Shuttlesworth declared thal
acts of terror will not slow th
fri'odoni inovc’mcnt. He pointe
out that mass meetings have!
been held in Birmingham churcm
OS every week for six years and{
lie said they will continue
The right
ophytes” had a cumlative aver
age of 1.9, almost a “B’ average.
son of Williamston; Arnold
atmosphere of friendship, love Sessoms, Ahoskie; Willie Cooper,
and a neighborly spirit without Windor; Robert Seldom and
any thought of competition. Lester Moore, Norfolk, Va ;
Everyone was interested in the Donald Potts, Boston, Mass.;
entire twelve trees along the Fulton Hayes, Clinton; Lee Me-
street. Those taking part in the ^ clean, Laurinburg; Claude Saw
project are: Mr and Mrs A B | yer, Plymouth; Leon Stanback,
Massey, and Mrs W. H. Cole, Hillsboro; and Joseph Williams, | Also in this group are some
^ Wilson. I brothers of great talent. Robert
^ ^ With the induction of these j Seldom is an accomplished
V|piuaf| new members, Tau Psi is now amateur designer; Richard Mi
"JIvflQl I twenty-nine strong. One very'zelle is a very good, singer; and
encouraging fact about tlie | Donald Potts is a member of the
“Neophyte” brothers is their North Carolina College track
academic achievement. The "No-1 team.
Continued from front page
and indirect Jot)s, and to retaiiT
nearly 15,000 workers with new
and marketable skills, at a
total Federal investment of $67
million.
Of this amount. Batt pointed
out, $219,000 has thus far been
invested in the State of North
Carolina, to help areas review
their potentials for economic
development, and to retrain 500
jobless workers. An additional
$8 million in redevelopment pro
jects is currently being pro
cessed which could provide cm
ployment for 2,300 jobless
workers.
returned to OrangcburS, S. C..
where he is currently pastor of
Mt. Zion Baptist.
During h:^ leadership of Mt.
Gilead, the congregation erectcd a
,jjew structure on Dowd St. to re
place the old building.
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