Rev. J. H. Jones Grabs; Holy Land Contest
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VOLUME 49 - N». 12
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1963
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In Aftermath of Racial Incidents
stown Explosive
Five Others
Trail Close
Behind Leader
At WcflncsJay noon, Rev, J.- H.
Jones of Diinvnie, Vii., Ifatfi UkUi
the Icid in the first woelf's ifMllelt-
fni; of the second jihanai Ministers
VarHlion Popularil.v Contest. tVjI-
lowlns closcly brhlnd, irtre Rev.
John It. Dungee of ilenderson,
Rw. A. D. Mosclpy and RcT..'W. T.
Bigelow, both ot Durkam, and Rev.
3. R. Jilanlcy of Ghapel IfllL ,
#^With votes comins in
frmn an iar away «i
NeW ^rrswy and pephsjlv«»l»; $e
wpli as thQse. broti^t In the (SiP
rolina Tines office by friends
gupporl«cs of thO' variotu cafl^i
dates, the balloting wa.s uiiusuaijijr
heavy for tHe' firgjl wcejt.
i.OVher nominees "»bo eav strot(.
w dtfnce that ’lhct wHl ' bi? Ji#aM'
iTDm before the contest
were ■ Hev. G. A. GlJchri*t
t^cton, Rev. Z. D, ^Harris .ofC^ift
ham, Rev. T. 11. Murphy'of HeiiSK
Crsonv Rev,. Kermit, DeOrsJfft
rcidt, Pitt.sboro aijd Rev; 9TalUr
Yairborough of PraiAiintoii.
At stake in th; the U:
grand prize of ^ - airplaafc
round trtpj« t^ lioiy Kill#,
sccond pfte, . Iri^ ..
rx>nnd' trip to_^rniu^a ini
third pri*e, a_ i^um
tfip tii New ¥vrk.
This eariyr in th* eortf^st It
bird to determine Just whft itifiU
be Mic winner of any of thA trips
sincc- il is lcnJwn lhat there are
several .strong nom^hfes Wgd plai;
to he heard from bs/ore tne flnat
(pirtain is rung down on the con
^ ■,
f Appearing Tn' each^of' the Carp
lina Times is a regular vote cou
pon. All that is necci^ary (6 vote
for a favorite minister . Jltth the
resular vote coupon counting for,
l-,800 points i.s - to write in his
name anii mail bring' it to the
office of the Carolina Times,fi|C
E. Pettigrew Street, i)iirham. K.
c.
Bcmus votes are given for sub-
^iptlons to the Carolina. Time!:
and '.vill only be credited to a
nominee when acompanied by tht
payment. The number of pointt;
for sub.scriptions may be seen in
the contest advertiseme.nt in aach
issue of the Carolina Times.
To facilitate the proper tabula
tion and correct standing the con
test manager is urging that aV
contestants will please comply
with rule 10 by mailing or bring
ing their report to the office o£
the Carolina Times by Monday
noon of each week.
The relative standing of con
testants for this week is as fol
lows:
Rev, J. H.‘Junes
Danyiile, Va. 212,000
BeV. J. R. Dungce
■ Hcndrrson .. 210,000
Rev. A. D. Moseley
I)' I iiam ZjC.OOt)
Rev. W. T. Bigelow
Duriiam 191,000
Kev. J. R. Manley
" ChipcI lun 190,0WI
Re'. C, A.'Gilchrist
Liitlelon 187,0(K'
Rev. 'A. D. harris
Durham 172,000
Rev. T. 11. Mnrphy
Ucmlerson ' 172,000
Rev. Waller Yarborough
Franklinton UiB.OOi)
Rev. A. W. Lawson
Durham 146,000 (
Rfv. Kermit DcGraffcnreidt
Piltsboro 141,OOC
Rev. I. w. Choates
Durham 140,000
^v. n. L. Speaks
■*Durham lj/,000
Kev. .J, M. Mangum
Krankllnton ^ 130,000
Rev. J. H. Thomas
Enst Orange, N. J. ... 122,000
llishop M. T. Mitchell
UHltimore, Md 129,000
Sec CONTEST, 6-A
Southern Fidelity and
Bankers Fire Merged
H; C. Mutual
ilcpres 3rd
Am in Year
iThp rof^ger of two Durham
bainyss firms. Rankers Fire and
C«iwsUT !n5!utanpe Company, was
M^UMinced this week.
'£[>• .announcement came at the
•omal stockholders meeting of
BMkers Fire last Thursday.
merger was completed on
Fe&'28,. it was revealed. j
Hiijik^rs Tire is a i,ttbsidlary ofi
Carolina Mutual Life Insur-'
Conjpany, which acquired j
tt^thjilin; interest in the firm ai
Tiar ijgo. The mcrs’ef of Bankers'
Bir* 'and Southern Fidelity tjius
b>jln^ to thjree the number of
rjeijl firm acquired by North
Qirvliiia Mutual Life Insurance
Ce'vlh the past ycnr.
Aside from Bankers Fire and
Fidelity, North Carolina
Mii ttiM^S^uired Unity Life Insur-
a'te^ Co^p^hy, of Chicago several
THti I
ago.
action enables North Caro-
liiu. Mutual to become the first
Negro life insurance company with
« .mnltjple-line affiliate as a sub-
si^ary. Offic'als of North Caro-
See MERGED, 6-A
SAVES SON FROM FLAMES—
Robert Harris, resident of Rt.
1, Bahama, is shown her* hold
ing his 3 1/2 year old ssn Jack,
Them— -tn- #ren* ruin* of -the
family hamk on HofMcins road In
the northern section of Durham
Ceunty. Harris, who thought at
first his sen was with his moth
er, msJe a frantic dash inside
the flaming, four room structure
and fought his way through a
.smoke filled room to rescue his
s^ bcfor* fire «em#tetely
-m^tohed thr tWHy heiWe
) day afternoon. Jack is the
youngest of five children, others
of whom are Alary, 16, Robert,
14, Ronald 9 and Oebra 7.
Photo by Purefoy
Suit Against N. C. Guard Prepared
rBiITs1>ropMeTfo End Race Ban
TOP TYPIST—Wanda Carol Lo
gan, 16 year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. George Logan, Jr.,
•f til Massey Ave., will eom-
in the state-wide typing
aentest to be held at North Ca-
rvlina College on March 22. She
earned the right ;o enter the
state finals by virtue of her vie-
fery in a regional contest held
In Raleigh recently.
Moves to eliminate the barrier
of race on membership in the
■North Carolina National Guard
came this week just r.s attorneys
in Durham '.vere preparing to file
a suit against the Guard’:; prac- j
tices of excluding Ncrroes.
A Durham attorney reVealcd
that he had completed work on an
iction which was scheduled tn be
started in- federal court on behalf
of three Durham residents.
It was not immediateiv clrar
whether the action will he pur
sued in view of recent develop
ments in the state legislature to
repeal the law requiring ..xcluaion
of Negroes.
Some 22 senators spon.sored a'
bill presented in the General As
sembly Monday nigiit to repaal
the section if law requiring all
wh'te membership in the Guard, j
Senator David Clark, of Lincoln, j
who sent the bill through, said
he expected II to pass without
much 'opposition.
Crest St. (Hicks-
town) c^DmKTntty, adiacent to an
area under heavy surveillance by
police in the investigation of a
aeries of rape cases, was a virtual
iMwer keg this week following
two racial incidents there recently.
On last Thursday a car load of
white youths sped through the
community’s main street shooting
insults and made a return trip
during which they fired several
shots in front of a popular gather
ing spiot in the area.
On Sunday, a 13 year old boy
who iikd to go through a white
neighborhood to a store nearby
was beaten by a 17 year old v/hite
youth as t|ic Neg-o youngster
started home.
Both incidents are related in
the minds of the community's
residents to the recent rape re
ports.
These incidents linked with
I what the residents described as
junnsual harassments by police in
the rape investigations, have
brought the community to the
verge of erupting.
Approximately 25 tn 30 wit-ness-
les were at Nunn's Place, a popular
gathering spot at 2403 Crest St.,
Ifst Thursday night wi.en the
Shooting incident took place.
Betty McNeill. 18, said .she wasi
inside the esta1>lishment aroun' i
See HICKSTOWN, 6 A
Teacher Draws
3-5 Years in
Mh
Zollis T. 'Sanders, Negre school
teacher of Washington, D. C. and
former teacher at Fayetteville
Street Elementary School in Dur
ham, pleaded nole contendre (no
contest) to manslaughter Tuesday
in the traffic death of a Negro .boy
and was given 3 to S years in
prison.
Sanders was charged with dri
YOUNG VICTIM—Ronald Pat
terson, 6, points to spot on Ed
die Daniel's face where youngs
ter was slugged by unidentified
17 year old white youth Sunday
in one of two racial Incidents
which has plagued the Crest St.
community in recent days. Pat
terson and Eugene Wiley, -,
looking on, were with Daniels
when incident occurred.
Laurinburg Sisters on Trial For
Theft of $24,000 from Undertaker
LAURINBURG — Two Negro
sisters went on trial in superior
court here Tnesday on charge
vhitp junk dealer. Miltou Bane,
whom they had befriendetl.
C. II. Morris, the 'uneral direc-
they stole $24,000 from a Negro the charges after he
clumied he cauijht Trucmiller. his
maid, turning the diul of his safe.
He said his wife hud discovered
•hrter, Wnky, 4», pleaded iit+that $24,000 was tnfiWnfi from the"
funeral director. \
Truemiller Polston, 52, and her
noee'nt to the charges, claiming
the money was given to them by a
Girl Kidnapped
By Gang of Boys
In Rape Attempt
A Negro girl left a bowling
Royal Ice Cream Ok’d
The Royal Ice Cream Co., Dur
ham firm which has been the tar
get of a Negro boycott for several
years, was approved this week by
leaders of the boycott movement
■nd the action against the firm
was lifted.
Isaac Reynolds, or CO.'.e, which |
has been in the forefront of the
boycott in recent weeks, said he I
and other CORE leadais were
served there, this week.
However, tne iist of Durhem
firms under a D'Jrrent boyco't'
called by CORE and the NAAfP
remained unchanged this weak.
Seven downtown stores are-, cur
rently under boycott by th^^a'dwo
groups. They are Sears, Thpni Me-
An, Rcscoe-Grlffin, Robbins, W^l-
green's. Royal Clothing Ce. and
Beverlv Shoo. j-
NEW BANKERS PIltE OPFI-
CERS—R. N. Harris, executive
vke president of Bankers Fire
and Casualty Company, congrat
ulates new;y elec.eci o.ticers of
the firm who ere W. J. Walker.
Jr., secretary; Miss C. A. Mill
er, and H. R. Edwards, assistant
secretaries. Scene occurred’ at
Bankers Fire stockholders meet
ing.
off the pavement of Kayette-j
ville St. last March 31, and strik-j
Ing 8-year old Robert Godbolt.;
The impact brought instant death. {
Edwin Phillips, 18-year-old Ne-'
gro boy, testified he was walking
along the shoulder of the road;
with Godbolt and another buy
when the victim was struck by the
car and knocked into a ditch.
Phillips .said that the car did not
stop.
The defense counsel conceded
that Sanders had been drinking
before the accident but argured
the Stiite Supreme Court had rul
ed that because a person is driv
ing while drunk doesn't mean he
is criminally guilty of manslaugh
ter when .someone is killed by his
car.
•‘1 am not trying to buy his
freedom because Your Honor
knows that civil laws and motor
vehicle laws will take care of part
See TEACHER, 6-A
safe.
The combined' .salaries pf the
Polston .siifters total S.11.52 a
week. The sisters reeently finish
ed building u $,3(}.000 home on
the edge of a white section heri;
;>nd have moved in along with
the’r mother and several relative.'*.
Truemillii- told effivej-s thi’ junk
lealer cave! her'a Indll hoxlshort
alley on Fayetteville Street on ly before hi- died last ^lay. After
his death, she said she opcnetl
Ihe^box i^d found the money.
Broad Vision
Urged of Negro
Businessmen
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Ne
gro businessman) should set their
sights on bron'ier horizons of op
portunity in the mainstream of
American business instead of *''* Co. i»nd American Tobacco
operating in a racially-restrlct-j Company of Durham,
ed market, according to a re- B"ih of the American Tobacen
port released this week by the [Company firms in Koxboro and
U. S. Department of Commerce. 11*“rhum are required by federal
Accelerated m o v e m e n t of Is*"' to adhere to strict policies of
were charged hy Durhi.m“'police'Negroes into the main- non di»i-rimination to qu-Ufy to.
' stream of U. S. economic and contracts they hold with federa.
^mday night and was standing at
a scrvice station across the streei
waiting for her mother. Five
young Negroes dragged her into
a car and drove several blocks
to Dakota St. where they took
her to a field and one of the five
a.s.saulted her with intents to com-1
mit rape.
A white man who has an office
at the site of the new Shepherd
Junior High School under con
struction on the street saw wha(
was going on, ran the five Ne
gnies away and called the police.
The five defendants — Gary
Montgomery, 22, of 816 Fargo St.,
.1, W. Long. 18, of 110 Chestnut
St., Frank Williams, 15, of 808
South St., Lr.vrence Carpenter,
IH, of 20(^ Piedmont St., and An
thony Spell. 16, of 709 Lee St.
Negro Males
Put Through
Interrogations
A police dragnet was «j*erplng
thr.iugh Duke University and it«
hospital this w,ek in hitpmi of
picking up a -iaetf tn the idmtltr
of suspect i|S i s^es of rrportal
rapes in Durham.
Reliable .n»urre»_ .«.sid every N«
!!ro male votkef in the Hnxpital
was systematicaUjr belnjr .srni
throuuh for pmsiM‘
idrntification. end ' questioned by
policemen
Althoui;h Durham police nf(i
cials were reluctant tn dlscoss th>?
ph'i.sr of the Investigation. Duke
I'niversity .Medical School officer
Dr. B;imes Woodall confirmed the
report that police were conduct
ing interoEations at the hospital.
i'Kverybody is being f|u«'stif»n-
d. Dr Woodall said. “Ineluilini
bus drivers ami garbage collect
ors."
The hospital and Unlvernity
..omhined employ apprtiximately
2.t.\K) Negroes.
According to reports from si>ur-
ces whose identities could not he
di.sclu.sed. the interrogations ami
the 'line-up" at the hospital are
advertised as •■m*etings." One
Duke hiispital employee told the
n.MKS that all the Negro men in
hi.s' Section were told by the sil-
T«’rvisor to report to certn'n room
'or a meeting. But when they got
to the room, they discovered they
■vere carrii>d through a ''line-up”
md question.i concerning the ad-
Jresses and itther information re
lating to the reported attacks were
isked them.
Tobacco Fina
Charged With
Hiring Bias
Alle'.:atioiu have bi*en nmrfe tn
‘he Preeiileni's Committee on
TjuaT FTmploytn'ent charTr.’i? llial
■“acial di.scrimination is evident in
the opratlons of the American
roliavco Co. plant in Durham.
It was reported T’.esda)' from
Washington that the alle::ations
are being reviewed by the Presi-
dent’s Cttmmittee no# to determ-
ne '•[ they cjuallfy as federal com
plaints.
Percy Williams, of the ifficc of
■he President's Committee, said
I he complaints must qualify for
t'ormal dassUication before they
can be investigated by federal
agencies.
Recently complaints were made
charging discrimination in hinnK
practice:) at Roxboro Manufacttn--
Greensboro Finn
Hits $2 Million
GREENSBORO — The American
Federal Savings and Loan As.socia-
tion last week passed anothei
milestone as the institution's as
sets passed the two-million dollar
mark.
Wiliam Gravely, Jr., a Reidsville
real estate broker, shortly before
noon, on March 12, opened a new
account. Ills initial deposit was
enough to carjry. the iMtitution's
total assets above two niillion dol
lars.
Officials of the Association hail
ed the achievement as an example,
of generous support and confi
dence by tho community in a |
young and growing institution. i
J. Kenneth Lee, Greensboro at-;
torncy and president of the Asso-1
elation, said, "The accomplish
ment of this, our second goal, Ju.s-
Hfics the original opinion of the
.’oundcrs o^ the American Federal
Savings and Loan Association. We
were confident of its need and felt
that the community would supiwrt
See f2 MILLION, H A
with kidnapping a 14-year old girl,' , . , . . .
and one of the five was charged
with a.ssault with intent to com-1
mit rape.
tunities confronting Negroes In
business, the report states. Aif
F'our were placed under bonds | one shortrun expedient, the re-
of $2,SCO while Montgomery, | port recommends that Negroeii
churged with kidnapping and as | operating business firms should
sault, was placed under $5,0001 seek tu broaden their market
bond. ! Sue VISION, pu:re 4 A
Abernathy at NCC on March 24
The Rev, Ralph D. Abernathy, ,
pastor of the West Hunter '
Street Baptist Church, Atlanta. ■
and a promineat national fi
gure in the civil rights move
ment, will be one of the lead
ers at tJ/e North Carolina Col
lege Religious Emphasis Weekt
March 24-28.
Scheduled to deliver two aa-
.sembly speeches durins the
week, the Rev. Abernathy also
will lead midday meditatiims and
evening dormitory sessions.
Securing as leaders also will
b«! Dr. Firuz Kazemzadeh. asso
ciate professor of history at
Ynie University, and the Rev
Ar*hur C. Thomas, pastor of
the Coven.int Community
REV. ABERNATHY See ABERNATHY, Ca
aiTS HIMt LkVat
lured her* to Janies B. CeMt.
lernter preehieiil •« Mt« MW
mere AUlanee •* P«a»al lm#hhr
eee wK# wae reeently atPp#tM0ed
smwrlntewJewt el traMslm i%
Ms* Waahiiifllea. 0. C. fmt mt-
fico. N la eiM of Mm le» |«fea b»
the peetat eeewV
satien. CeMt S9. was a earSM
sa»»te»se f*r 31 yean. He l» •
neHve el PwHnw witf • tew
gradwete ef Htward UfilmtMy.