lARUSTON NEW Cim RIGHTS HOT "SlVr
Early August
Trustees to Get
Finai List of
Names in Aug.
Indicated Tim0
Final selection of a succssor to
Mortti Carolina College presi
^etit Alfonso Elder must wal.
(mtil at least early August, ac
cording to indications here tliis
^eek.
^ A committee o. f trustees
l^harged with recommending the
bame of a succssor to ttie full
,|>ody of trustees met at the col
lege in Durham on Tuesday but
'i^Matls of their deliberations
Were sketchy.
■ ' This group, the nominating
eammlttee, is to make recom-
ntendations for a successor to tlie
[iili trustee board before a selec
n can be made. ’
■'•’■•Indications were this week
^at it would be at least early
Aiifust before the nominating
KO)imittee gets a chance to pre
i^t its recommendations to the
^11 board,
;Dr. Elder was unavailable for
ioininent foltowing the meeting,
out Or. James M. Hubbard,
l^tee secretary ai^d a member
^the nominating committee, re-
fisiiled that the earliest likely
tUne. for a full meeting of the
board would be “around the
^st week hi August.”
Dr. Hubbard declined to li."!*
ihfe numl>er of candidates belne
considered for the post; he did
the group still has to com-
pete comn^unications with “one
two” persons before it will
ready to present its report
'the trustees.
Jle said he'felt this would be'
ofje within the next few flays.
Hubbard also revealed that
is TJo definite time set for
' Btiotliler meeting of the trustee*
jt^ed that /he thought the
group would *|(ttther during “WF
ifi^st half” ol August to hear the
aomiriating committee's report.
The trustee board placed the
job of finding candidates' for a
1^'cessor to Dr. Elder in the
liijnds *f a five-man committee
of trurtees, Headed by trustet
'chairman Bascom Baynes.
“ Present at Tuesday’s meeting
pi the Bommitteei.i'iHrfere' Attorney
K/'Hugri' Tho'mpi'on, PT tT. War
„^ins, ^tiator Clyde $hreve ant'
!tfubbard, Atty. Marshall T
^peari was tiie only member o'
Ihs committee absent,
f- The trustees must find a suce.«i-
'iibr to Dr. Elder by September
j since his tonur® will expire
then. Dr. Elder actually resign
ed on June 30, but was persuad
ed by the trustees to remain at
the helm until September 1 to
give them time to pick a new
president.
As the time for Elder’s Sep
tember retirement approach'jS
speculation over his successor be
comes more intense. Reports thi?
week were that the campus if
experiencing a growing excite
ment and tension over expecta
tion of an imminent announce
ment of the trustees selection
Dr. Elder is only the seco’’/
president in the institution’s S3
See TRUSTEES, 4-A
for Naming NCC President
Troops Called;
JFK Puts Damper
On Red Baiting
VOLUME 40 — No. 29
DURHAM, N. SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1963
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Durham Rejects Coui^ Order
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SOUTHEASTERN BUSINESS COLLEGE
SETS $50,000
SOOTHEASTERK TRQSTECS Ibay approTcd rtcentlr- ^ _
A1>PROVE BALDING PLANS bers of ih* beard of directors (left to right) Alternty fkairTey
>—Diracler-of Southastern Buii- are (raated, left to itght) A. T. Beech, of Kinston, J D.- ChaM.
nt«s College look ever plant for Spaulding, Jr., David Sliih of Charlotte, and Dr. J. E. Camp,
a building piogram al tha busi (President), S. B. Fulbright and bell,
ness college hn Durham which , '
Plans for a building program
for fioutheastern Business Col
lege.,in Durham were announced
iiero. Sunday.
lie announcement revealed
tliat> oae und half acre tract of
landi located on South Alston
avenue has been obtained by
■ the sctrool and that plans for the
establishment of two buildings
on the land have been made.
This disclosure followed a
meeting of the school’s board oi
trustees at the Jack Tar Hotel
Sunday afternoon, Elections of
officers and appointments among
members of the board were also
made at the meeting.
President David Stith made
the announcement at an inform
al dinner in the Wedgewood
rodm o the hotel attendea uy
the 'board meml>ers, their wives
and' some ten other guests.
Stith said the plans announced
Sunday represented the first
stajge , in long-range plans for
‘overis»il‘'develophient of the bu.si-
ne^ sdkpok Cost of tltc first sf^ge
«f^Mii;ted to be in excess
James T. Taylor. Standi^ a?* ^
He revealed that the school
idgar Love to
.Retire Next June
Winston Philip Finally GqIs
His Freedom on
A Durham businessman found
guilty of causing a miscarriage
was released from jail earlier
this week when a bondsman
posted his bond for $7,500.
Winston Peter Philip, 58 year ’
old West Indian who was sen- ^
tenced to 4 and a half to 5 years
in prison for charges growing
out of an abqrtion attempt on
a white woman, made a hasty
departure from )iis cellblock,
when bond was posted to fre-e,
‘--v I
had acquired property at 603
S. Alston avenue and that twcP
buildings would tie established
there for tiie scliool.
The school is currently iiouscd
in; the Scarborough bujilding. o)i
Ucist Pettigrew St
- Stit^ said the school has a,c-
quired property at 603 Soutli Drive.
thai
I . : . '
Mrs. Rivera is
in
Held in Durham
prominent Durham woman, was
Board Votes 5-1 Disapproval of
Stanley's Order for "Free Choice"
The struggle to have Durham’s i school pupils in the city systcnt
GREENSBORO — The Rt.
Rev. Edgar A. Love, presiding
bishop of the Central Jurisdic
tion of the Methodist Church,
is scheduled to retire from the
bishopric at the church's next
Jurisdictional con ference in
June.
Reports of the Bishop's retire
ment were confirmed here this him.
week when Methodist ministers, judge Leo Carr, -jpon recom- buried in Episcopal church rites
wires honored the bishops wife Uendation of Solicitor Dan Ed-1 Durham on Tuesday after-
in a testimonial. | wards, boosted Philip’s bond j^iy jg
The tribute was planned aa from $5,000 o $7,500 and a*-
marklng the final lime Mrs. j creed that the amount would
Love would attend the retreat have to be put up as a lump sum
of minister's wives as the bis- and not divided into several
Sec BISHOP, 4-A smaller bonds.
Negro bondsman C. C. Malon?'
Sr. and his wife posted the bond
early this week in exchange for
a mortgage on Phillip's
perty.
MARRIED AGAIN — Lovely week. It was the second for Misi
Dorothea Towels, first Negro 1 Towles who kept her marriage a
model to attain high level re-1 closely guarded secret and the
cognition, was married to At-1 first for Attorney Church, >
torney Thomas A. Church last Justice Department la«nr*r. Com
December, it was revealed this I plete story appears on page 1-B.
Bragg GJ. Led
Va. Marchers
Alstoii’ avenue, ahd that Jvvo
story dwelling currently located
on the Vropf^rty will tie rf^ovar-
ed to serve as an administration
buiding aiid another new build
ing will be erected on the site
J'or classrooms.
The renovated structure will
contain the President’s oftice, a
DANVILLE, Va. — ItT a- pp«-
cedent-setting event July 14, a
serviceman led a demonstration,
while in full uniform and carry
ing the American flag.
Pfc. Buford G. Holt, 23, a na
tive of Danville, led a deijion-
stration of sly persons in front
of the home of Mayor' JuUar'
Stinson a|)Y2i f^O^ptr^j Club
^"ive. >> ■^ _ ' .!
TheMaySr his brahJ^Teail-
ers of the movement 6s ‘crimin
als” and has continually refused
l,l! iMrflll. 1
to negotiate.
Holt (82nd Airborne Division,
Fort Bragg, N. C.) went limp and
was carried by four policemen
to the pound truck.
This is the first time in the
student reading room, faculty civil rights struggle that a Negro
lounge and a ceiiference room soldier has demonstrated in uni
Holt’s Action Let To
l^an on Protests
WASHINGTON — Acllhg
Fort Bragg paratrooper PfCi .Biir
ford Holt in taking par^ ip a
monslVation againtt r«qal s^
gre^^tion ait Danville, Va. last
Sitriday is ijelieved to have
uiul Qiie classroom.
Both buildings will be air-con
ditioned and off street parking
will be provided.
, In other action, the board
elected Stewart B. Fulbright as
its chairman, A. T. Spaulding,
Jr., vice-chairman, and C. C
prompted the order by Defense
Secretary McNamara banning
further similar participation by
#lr^ce ’*mn in deinonstrations
against racial segregation. {
Actually, the order issued
Tuesday night by, the Defeasu
chief does not completely b a i
servicemen from taking part in
protests. The order forbids serv
ice men from taking part in such
Father David B. Nickerson,
St. Titus Episcopal Church
priest, conducted rites at t h e
I church and at Beechwood ceme
tery where she was buried.
I Mrs. Rivera died at Duke
hospital at approximately 9:30
Saturday morning, July 13 after
pro- ^ suffering a lengthly illness. She
I had been confined to the hospital
city schools fully integrated be-
fpra September was temporily
staggered early this week when
the city school board voted 5'-l
in objection to a federal court
order calling for complete free
dom of attendance in the ele
mentary and junior high schools.
The board turned down an
“freedom of choice” to select
the schools they wish to attend
the coming year.
New plans for pupil assign
ment and desegregation of Dur
ham schools were submitted by
the board in April, The plans
provided for futher desegrega
tion of Carr and Brogdsn Junior
In his trial last month, Philip for nearly a year,
was found guilty, by a mixed I A native of Raleigh, Mrs. Rl-
jury, of "inducing a miscarriage , vera had lived in Durham since
of a pregnant woman, for which 1929. She was the daughter of
he was sentenced from 3 and a the late G. A. Edwards, first
half to 5 years; practing medi
cine without a license, for which
principal of what is now known
as Hillside high school, and Mrs,
he received 12 months, to be-j Ruth Norris Edwards of the
gin at the expiration of the first home, 1712 Fayetteville St!
senljence; charges of unlawful I She was trained at Hender.son
possession of barbituate drugs Institute, the Durham public
and unlawful delivery of drugs, | schools, West Virginia State' Co^-
which were consolidated for, l*ge and North Carolina C *
form for his rights,” said Bob protests while in uniform or on
Zellner, Student Non-violent Co-. juty. Ii did not specifically pro-
ordinating Committee (SNCC> hibit them from demonstrating
Field Secretary. while in civilian dress an4 off
Holt said that he nad heard of.
the treatment of his family and Holt marched in the Danville
friends who had been speaking demonstration in full dran of
Stokes, Rocky Mount, secretaryj^ out for their rights in Danville | jiis unit, the 82nd Airborne Di*
An executive committee coin^
('IIARI.ESTON. S. C-—This his-
»ric !ieap>rt city became the facw
of attention thi.i week in the ever
■iiifting scenes m th*> natimvwide
triii'.'tle against racial discrinuM'
IMI.
S. ('. Governor Donald Russell
,Vt (Inpsilay onlered 130 state
trm.pers into the city and placed
he National Guard on standby
ih'rt to cope with mnuating dis
■irdor.t rising from a series of maa-
live demofistratiom agaiast Mg-
relation staged by N'egroej.
Meanwhile, on other accil^ in
the national ratial struggle, .Cam
bridge. Md.. wMch had for several
lays been the nation's “hot tfot'
n the integration movement, ez-
'>*‘rienced its first few days of
talm.
.\egro leadera. after ^onsultinj
with Gov. Tawes, agreed to a
temporary halt in demonstratioos.
The town has lieen under vary
ing degrees of martial law for
the past several weeks when vio
lence broke out.fol)e;«iiig the firsl
denionstrations. **
Two incidents of violence were
reported in Mortfa (^^rtilina towns
al.so this week as movement
continued to spread throughout
the state.
Two youths participating in a
demonstration New. Hera said
they were beaten by police and
are preparing formal charges of
police brutality. >
At Thumasvilfe, the entire city
police lorce, augmented by 13
.state Jroopers, were pressed ints
service to separate - a %rowd of
whites and Negroes Wednesday
night in the wake of demonstra
fions against ^at^r segregati«a
In the nation «api^ bear^i
weat' on before ^naie Jidiciary
Committee od Presdent Kennedy »
civil rights profmsals.
■ j
Kennedy injected himself |n-!
directly ihto'^:tlU>;fronilraversj^ nn
Wednesday Mrhen 'he disparaged:
talk about comtnunist iftfiueact^ V>
the natiOD-wide demonstrations. .
The Pi^ideirt _at. his D«mg
conference that although comni»>
nists may be taking part in dem-
,onslrati(Miii, there is no evidence
that the demonstrations arc com
munist inspired.
Two southern Governors. Boss
Barnett, of Miss., and George Wal
lace, of Ala., had indicated ia
earlier testimony before the Com- '
inittee that communisms were “call
ing the shots*' in the demonstra
tions.
posed of President Stith, chair
man Fulbright, Spaulding and
James T. Taylor and Mrs. L. J.
Stith was also named. Oliier
committee appointments and
teaching additions were also
made.
and that he could not be on the
alert to fight in Cuba when
there was a more basic battle
for Democracy to be fought in
America.
He carried a sign reading: “1
serve in the forces which guard
our country and our way of life
At the informal dinner fol- 1 ani prepared to give my lif?
for the United States to detenc
the rights of her citizens. But I
high school, pointed out in an must ask this nation if America
lowing the trustee meeting, John
H. Lucas, principal of Hillside
address that current trends in
education were designed to pre
pare students to take their
See iAi*ANSION, (> A
is prepared to defend my rights
as an American citizen.”
An Emergency Food Drive has
been announced by representa-
vision, and carried an American
flag.
Spaulding OK'd
By Jr. Chamber
with a major in commerce.
order outlined by Federal Judgt I High Schools by assignment of | judgement, with the defendenl. | lege, where she was graduated j
Edwin M. Stanley and drawn up ' ' ' ‘ ‘ ‘
t>y plalntUf and defendant at
torneys.
The judge’s order came after
Ih^ school board failed to satis
fy his orders to draw up a satis
factory plan for desegregation ot
the city schools issued last Jan
uary.
whole graduating classes from
all Negro Crest Street and Wall-^
town Elementary Schools, re
spectively.
However, the plan had no pro
vision for further desegregation
of high schools, and Instead ask
ed the court to allow such plans
to be made later to become cf>
Though rejected, the order ! fective in 1960.
was not appealed by the board Objections to the plans were
because Atty. Marshall Spear.'? filled in May by attorneys James
advised that it was still unsigned H. Nabrlt III and Conrad Pear-
by the judge and the attorneys son for'several Negro plaitififf
and was not subject to appeal. I parents in the case. The two
■ The proposed order would give' along with J, H. Wheeler one of
all elementary and junior high See BOARD, page 6-A
receiving 12 months to run con
current with 12 months active
terms.
Philip’s attorney C. J. Gate.t
announced immediately after
the' trial that he was filing an
appeal to the prison sentence
“because there were errors com^
mltted during the course of the
trial.”
Mrs. Ruby Woodard, 39, testi
fied in Philip’s trial that she
paid him $120 for an abortion'at
his office-house at 412 S. Man-
gum St., April 13.
The woman became critically
See PHILIPS. 4-A
Negro Boy Is
Lynched in Ark.
MARION, Ark. — No arrests
have been made of nine whiCS
Durham’s first Negro proposed
for membership in the local Jay-
cees was accepted in the busi
ness group last week by a ma-
, , „ , jority vote after first tieing turn i
tives of SNCC and the Congress | .
of Racial Equality (CORE) who
are working in Danville, Va., to
help ease hunger due to the cut
ting off of employment compen
sation and loss of jobs which oc
curred in reprisal for participal
ing in demonstrations.
“There are also many fami
lies where one or both parents
Asa T. Spaulding. Jr., a
b e r of the planning staff at
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Co., was notified last
week that the Durham Junior
Chamber of Commerce recon
sidered his application and ap
proved it for membership. He
In addition to her profession, persons who early this week i are in jail, and they have vowed | was rejected last moi'th when
secretarial work, Mrs. Rivera | chased a 17 year old Negro boy
was also actively associated with | through a field here and fatal-
her husband’s career as photo-1 ly shot him after a white wom-
grapher journalist for nationally j en reported he tried to rape hei
circulated Negro newspapers andjS year old daughter,
magazines. ..■■■,■ I Andi«W Ijee Anderson died
Mrs. River-a settled in Durham in a West Memphis, Ark., hos-
with her husband in 1945 .and {pital from the loss of blood after
was employed as a secretary- five deputy sheriffs and fou»
stenographer for the Durham other whita persons cornered
to remain there without bail. | his application “failed to meet
Food is needed for their chiW with approval of the board.”
ren,” according to Rev. L. G. Spaulding was prdmi.v?d last
Campbell, Executive Secretary i month that his application for
of the Danville Christian Pro- meml>ership would come up for
gressive Association (D.C.P.A.)' reconsideration.
Staples such as flour, canned [ Robert Westbrook, president
milk, and canned vegetables and ' of the Jaycees, announced the
meat are ne^ed for immediate! group’s followinf ita
distribution. “We are making a regular bi-weekly dinner meeting
County Welfare Department and | him in a field and when he tired I special appeal to alt friends of the Jack 'tar Hotel last week
later as secretary in the De- to run shot him in the leg. I justice for small and large pack-1 Spauldmg's membership was
partment of student health »er-| Sheriff Cecil Goodwin of ’ ages to be sent to 226 Worth spons'>red by the Rev, Ted G.
vices at North Carolina Collcjie. i Majfidn quoted a white won'.an. Union st, tianville, Va . Stone, candidate for tue SLate
See RIVERA, pagt 6A I ' See LVNCHen MARCHERi. 6 .l iut-
Durham Movie
Houses Approve
Desegregation
After two months of negoti» .
tion between theater owners ani
members of tke Mayor's Interim
Committee, all Durham theaters
except one have agreed to tmaie-
diateiy began admitting cistoaocrt
without regard (o race.
The name at the lone theater
holding back was not ideatified
because of a flan agreed upos bjF
operators and taenbers of tha ^
■tal subcommittee on MisceUa^
eous Grievances.
In a prepared statement earlier
this week coaceming the descgra
I’ation of theatres. Mayor Wensa
Grabarek'said:
"The major indoor tbeatroa al
Durham are presently undergoiog
a transition period af ope^ng
their door* to the general pvbtie
on a contralled and limited basis.
“Should the transitliw period
be successful and acceptaUe. tha
ultimrie policy of the theater*
would lie to atfrv^ all patroo* oa
an eqnal hasb subject to tkoaa
rights in raaMctioa ii
ally reserved te lhe mait^eneat.''
be cwaclwded.
Several Na|p^ coM|ilat ItUMiJii
tkkeU aad aaietoi ii»>ia9al e( IM
aioviet wMdM awMt
thf* ^leic/ '