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Demonstrators Sit at Howard Johnson's
Slieriffs Attempt Arrests
Mayor Arrives For Negotiations
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Anti-Segregation Demonstrations Race Through Tarf^elia
TALKS BEGIN IN DURHAM* TRUCE
New Mayor
Acts Swiftly . j
Tn Solve Issue
t\ aiiaky truce in a series of
racial demonstrations which
j^ocked Durham for three suces-
sive days was in effect at mid-
we'^k.
* The truce was the result of
oegotialions begun by thg city’s
new'Jiy elected Mayor
sell Grabarek.
It brought a halt to three days
of mass demonstrations by Ne
gro students protesting segrega
tion in ilie downtown restau
rants and hotels.
Some 1,400 students, mostly
from Nvth Carolina College and
Ilillsid'; high school, were ar
rested in d'jmonslrations^iULJSun:.
day, Monday and Tuesday.
Shortly after news of the truce
was relca.'’od, it was also an
nounced that seven restaurants,
mostly drive-ins, had lifted racial
barriers. They included Tops, Oh.
Boy's, Turnage's Barbecue, the
Blue Light Inn, McDonald’s and
the Rcbsl Room.
Mayor Grabarek acted swift
ly to set negotiation machinery
in motion early this weok and
by Tuesday had called togelhor
white and Negro leaders of the
business community to form a
commiHae to resolve the issuo.
The Mayor said Wednesday he
See MAYOR, 6-A
M'Kissick's Home
Guarded After
Bomb Threats
Armed guards volunteered to
protect the home of attorney
B’loyd B. McKlssick Tuesday
night after several “bomb thro
ats” were received.
Mrs. McKi.ssick told newsmen
that she had received several
calls during the day threatening
to bomb the house and neighbors
reported witnessing threatening
incidents during the afternoon.
Several young men ringed the
home of the young attorney,
adult advisor to the student de-
mongtrators, Tuesday night after
the calls.
One neighbor reported seeing
a white man get out of a car,
place a ba^ on the lawn and race
back to tihe car which left the
scone hujfriedly. The bag turned
out to bj; empty, however.
A n oUier reported hearing
several khots fired from a side
arm in Abe back of the McKis-
sick hoi^e late Tuesday evening.
Attorney McKlssick and his
familyj'' of three daughters and
one son live in a transitional
neighborhood, and several white
famil^s live behind his home
and i| the next block. .
VOLUME 40 — No. 21
*ari
y The TRUTM~UNBftiSE
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY/MAY 25^*1963'
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DQWDy POSTS NOTICE^- „
£lder Won't
Stop
!,000 are
GREENSBORO -— Acting A. and
T. Collose President L. C. Dowdy
has been Reported under extreme
I pressures from the high state of
ficials to take action to halt A.
and T. students from taking part
in racial demonstrations which
have been .staged here almost
daily for the past two weeks.
Although there was no official
comment from the institution, a
notice from the office of the presi
dent was posted throughout the
campus early this week warning
stuucnto that they face dismissal
if they continue to demonstrate.
A. and T. and Bennett College
students have formed the bulk oi
demonstrators here.
The notice, dated May 22, was
headed “Office of the President,”
and bore the signature of L. C.
Dowdy, acting president.
See A. AND T., 6-A
ftr.' Alfouso Elder, who retires
this year as president of North C-.-
rolina College, rejected sugges
tions this weei( that he use his
See ELDER, 6-A
UNDEK ARREST—The Rev. Mel
vin C. Swann, pastor qf Durhfnt'sJ'
St. Joseph’s A. M. E. Church,, leant i
on deer bf police etr wiiifi uncittr.l
arrest during a demonstrdticut by
Durham, North Carolina, youths at
Hie Howard Johnson Restaur^ntj
four miles south of Durham. '‘i
‘:'PKokM by> Alexander
xnmciiir
N. C. MUTUAL GROUND BROK
EN—Mrs. Martha Merrick Donnell
daughter of North Carolina Mu
tual Life Insurance Co. foundei
John Merrick, turn* first shove
of earth as ground is formally
broken in ceremonies for start of
cnstruction of the campany's new
'lome office.
North Carolina Mutual Breaks
Ground For $5 Million Office
Ground for the North Carolina
new $3 million home office build-1
Mutual Life Insurance Company’s'
ing was broken in impressive cere-!
mortics in Durham last Friday.
Mrs. Martha Merrick Donnell,
daughter of the company's found
er, the late John Merrick, turned
the first shovel of earth symbolic
of the beginning of construction
of the new building.
site, at the corner of Duke and
Chapel Hill streets.
Some 1,500 pwsons, including
leaders of the business comnt^nity
in Durham and other partlTV'th
country, witnessed the occasion.
J. W. Goodloe, secretary of the
firm, presided over the ccromon;
and introduced, more than a doze'
distinguished persons who read
brief messages of congratulations
She was followed by company’s
erecutives A. T. Spaulding, presi
dent; J. W. Kennedy, Jr., board [
chairman, a host of national and >
local dignitaries and outstanding I
salesmen of the firm. |
The ceremony was held in the
cleared out center of the Jbuilding j dent of the coin;>8ny.
Included among these 'Aras a;
message from Liberian ambu.ssador'
Edward Peeler Although Pecle wasi
not pre.sent, his message was readj
by Mrs. V. G. Turner, a vice presi |
Speaks Fails
I To Get Heavy
Support; Loses
One of the surprises of the
municipal election Saturday was
the failure of Durham Negroes
lo support Rev. Ruben L. Speaks
in the councilman-at-large race.
Rev. Speaks was defeated by a
margin of 128 votes.
Rev. Speaks, pastor of St.
Mark AME Zion Church, who
had the endorsement of the Dur
ham Committee on Negro Af
fairs, recelved?5,424 votes, with
3,414 from predominantly Ne- i
gro voting areas. |
If more than 120 voters had '
cast their vote for Rev. Speaks, 1
he would have won -one of the at-|
large seats. A Negro voting '
strength of more than 9,000 has |
t>een citiimed by Negro leaders. |
It is also noted that the num
ber of votes received by Rev. ■
Spoaks represented quite a de-:
crease from the number receiv-
See SPtAK,S, «-A
Supreme Court :
Strikes Jimcro |
In Restaurants
WASHINGTON — The Su
preme Court, in a ruling, halied
as important as the l65i decision
affecting segregation in public
education, ruled this week that
it is unlawful for a state or city
government to interfere with
peaceful sit-in demonstrations.
Although the decision did not
specifically spell out the legal
position of a shopkeeper who in
sists on maintaing segregation,
it did say that he could not use
the agencies of government to
enforciE such a policy.
The ruling has been nailed by
Negroes throughout the country
as giving added weight to their
contention for being admitted as
any other citizen to all places of
public accommodation.
See COURT, 6-A
WILKINS SLATES
AREA SPEECHES
Roy Wilkins, executive secre
tary of NAACP, was scheduled
to addreis a mass meeting in
Durham on Thursday night in
conoaction with mass protests
against saigregation.
Wilkins was scheduled to speak
at the St. Mark A. M. E. Zion
Church at 7:30 p. m.
Jo)in D. Brooks, of Rich
mond^ Va., director of the
NAAiCP's voter registration cam
paifn in this area of th» South
and who hat been in Durham
sine* Ike start of demonstrations
Sunday, said Wilkins will proba
bly go to Raleigh after th(> Dur-
h«fli rally.
m
InvM In
Demonstrations
A wave of racial unrest over
segregation that started in Bir
mingham broke-OHt a new
throughout cities in North Caro
lina.
An estimated 200 Negro stu
dents from Fayetteville State
Teachers College picketed main
department stores on Hay St., in
Fayetteville. This was the first
evidence of racial demonsira-
tions tbMK in about a year. There
wat Ae^Nllencc and no arrests.
More 'thkn 56 Negro stu
dents jit WiUiston High School in
Wilmington staged a two-houi
inarch to Wilmington City Hall
on Saturday. They, are seeking
better employment op{>ortunities.
the removal of All segregated
signs from lyiblic place.
Thert Were ho iilcidcnts nor
arrests in Charlotte Monday
when more—tfaao—80—Negtoc.’t
paraded through t)ie downtown
area, and then prayed on the
steps of the courthouse for the
“end of segregation.”
Guilford County taxpayers are
supporting the jailed Negro de
monstrators at a cost estimated
at a,minimum of SI.200 a day,
a coul4MKfI«al said in Greens
boro on.Jlfonday.
MoFCk^4ifm 1,300 persons have
been arr«sted in Greensboro' in
demonstnt^ns during the past
week. for protest were
the S9lW mtid Mayfair cafeterias
and the Carolina Theater. On
See DEMONSTRATIONS. S-A
COVER DRIVE WAY — Hundreds
of students from North Carolina
College and Hillside high school
tool seats in the drive-way and
parking aress at Howard Johnson's
restaurant Sunday in the first of
a series of massive demonstrations
against racial segregation. Small
segment of the crowd is shown
here.
ENFIELD YOUTHS
PICKET THEATRE
By B. HARREN
ENFIELD — This usually-quiot
peanut capital Halifax County
town lifted its eyebrows more than
usual Sunday afternoon as nine
neatly-dressed colored teenasors
quietly picketed the town's lone
theatre which has for many >c«rs,
provided a jim-crojv balcony foi
the use of Negroes.
The local NAACP youth lea.lens.
apparently were opearting by re
mote control. No adults particinat-
ed actively in the picketing which
lasted for abont two hours and
took a break for the local school
program during the afternoon.
McLendon Takes
Post in Kentucy
N.ASHVnXS, Tenn. — John B.
■ HcLendoB. Teiwessee State Uni
versity’s cMMtinator of health.
' physical edaeatioB and athletii--
: since last Septeoaber, resigned to
return to ntttge bwketball coat.li-
ing.
McLendon';* new coaching dutici
will keep Mb Ib the cMifervm >
HECKLERS — Pictured her* is a| to shout inswHs end ettterwise with TWHMMIW Ifr t;ilte3
scene showing a typical group of| kle demonstrators. This seen* *c- over as ImmI teskatttall et-acli kL..
whita hecklers who turned up at cured on nmin stroa* in froni af athlctiG #nctor at K«Bhick> ht«u
(ha 3cn« of all tht demoaatratiaM, eir> (ail Son«ia} night, :Co]}«2t *t Vfintfvrt f