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Bomb Rips Attorney's Home, Shatters Birmingham Calm
Angry Nob of
2,000 Ifireatens
To Retaliate
BIRMINGHAM, AU. — A
bomb dug a hole In Negro At
torney Arthur Shores, driveway
on Tuesday night. It blew out
window* in his eight-room
krlck home. It blew in his gar
age door and It damaged the
(iuneroom overhead.
Shores was sitting in another
part of the house watching tele-
vfk>n and was not hurt. His
wjfe and daughter were at the
mpvles.
^Shores has been lawyer for In-
^paUon cases in Alabama since
Autherine Lucy" was admitted.
Wfiefly, to the- University of Ala-
in 10S6.
, ^When the incident occured
BItore than 2,000 angry Negroes
tjished into the streets of the
lection, screaming and
l^irHng rocks.
-ijTbe Birmingham police armed
«itb rifles and shotguns fired
the Negroes, head^a njj-
ii^ehed against the yelling
rowds with their guns at their
dli^. ^
••ijletore the wild demonstration
niBs brought under control, one
yirilceman was hit by a rock
fend taken to the hospital.
', Mayor Albert Boutwell Im-
amtiatc.ly conattHed with
officials about the devastating
fiteident.
Pnc«: ISc
DURHAM, N. C
IN DUNN CRISIS
VOLUME 40 — No. 34
SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1M3
RETURN REQUESTED
THE DUNGEES REPORT FROM HOLY LAND;
We ve Seen the Lord's Country
Brool(stown in Blighted Area
Henderson Pair
To Return to
N. Y. August 29
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rev. and Mn.
John Dung**, in the Holy Land on
■ trip tponiored by the Carol na
Timet, detcribo their experience!
in the followina letter.
We completed our scheduled
Itinerary of tsrart ygrtcfday eve
nine just after the beginning oi
the Jewish Sabbath. Today and tu
morrow (Sunday) are days ol
lei.5ure for us before our depar
ture on Monday for Rome. ^
The days have been piclced lull
See DUNOEE, 3-A
Boycott Being
Suspended on
Durliam Stores
A boycott action against a
group of Durham downtown
stores has been suspended, ac
cording to the NAACP-COBE
youth councils chairman.
Miss Joyce Ware, chairman of
the joint council of the two civil
rights organizations, saiid the
group voted to suspend the boy
cott against all stores until they
have an opportunity "to re
evaluate the situation.”
She indiciated that additional
action may be taken after tha
re-study, which she said would
not be made until around tht
middle of October.
The group has conducted a
months-1 o n g boycott against
selected downtown stores. The
boycott was called in protest to
what were described as dis-
crimintary hiring and customer
service policies.
The number of atores orginal-
ly placed under tioycott consitu-
ted a rather long list. However,
the numi>er had dwindled to 4
as of thia week as the result oi
agreements reached between tha
store management and the boy
cotting groups.
Prior to announcement of the
suspension of the boycott, the
group voted to remove Roytfl
He‘ha*"~Uught at'Kentucky 'Clothing Company from the
LEADER
NCC Information
Officer Leaves
For Fayetteville
perry R. LMsar, public in-
temation assistant at North Ca
rolina College, has resigned his
position to accept an appoint
ment on the Fayetteville State
College facidty as tn instructor
in the Commerce Department.
He aaaumes his new futies Sept-
•ml>er 3.
He leaves NCC after serving
two years as public information
assistant in the News Bureau
and directing the college’s sports
publicity program.
A native of Saliabury, Leazer
did bla undergraduate and
graduate work at North Caro
lina College, receiving the ba
chelor'! degree in 1958 and the
master’s degree tn 1063.
SUte College, Frankfort, and at
the Durham Builness College,
'Durham. Oth*r work experi
cncei Include poaltions as office
Bianager • bookkeeper. Service
)PriBtlng Co., DortMun and inter-
?-*wer with ,tSp( employment
Security Commieeloni Durham.
' A *riidu«^:’» High
Scbool, Saliibuijy, Leazer U the
wn of Lee A. V’tter and a velr
■ «an of the Kc.een conflict.
list.
Community Part
Of Area Marked
For Renewal
State NAACP
Backs Felder
» K S'
NEW BUS DRIVER—Heraca Had-. Duke Power Co. bu* in Durham
foapoth, vetel-an employo* of whw he wa» aMlgnod last week
Duke Power Company of Durhsm, as a trahtea-driver for the firm,
became the first Ne«ro driver of a I —Photo by Purefoy
Veteran Employee of Bus Firm
Becomes Durham's First Driver
Horace Hcdgespeth. 43, becamei said Hedgespeth had been promot
the first Negro driver of a public ed from his job as a mechanic's
transportation bus in Durham
when he was assigned as a driver
trainee by Duke PffMCT Company
franchised operator of public
transportatioa system for Dur
ham.
A company official said this
week after Hedgcspetli's first sev
eral days on the new job that tiie
firm believed he would make the
grade as a "good" bus driver.
"We think he's malcing good
progress, and from all indications
he should be a first-class opera
tor,” said S. C. Hodges, superia
tendcnt of Duke Power Cofnpany's
transportation operation.^.
Hodges made the official an
nouncement of Hedgespeth's as
.lignment as a trainee driver.
helper at the bus firm’s garage.
Hedgespeth took over his new
duties without fanfare last week,
but reports of his presence behind
the .-vli^el of tiia bus bn the Fayet-
ville street route quickly circu
lat^d through the community.
'The Fayetteville street route
handles Negro patrons predomi
nantly.
However, Hodges explained tl.at
Hedges)>eth-had not been assigned
a specific route as yet. He said
that the new trainee-driver would
in all liklihood serve on several
of the firm's routes in the city
during his training period.
The Negro community uf
“Brookstown" is included in an
area declared “blighted ’ by t.'ity
planning officials and earmarked
for possible urban renewal.
The Durham Planning and Zon
cialiy declared some 152 acre* «■
land (iescribed as the ‘‘Myrtle
Drive" set-lion as blighted. The
area is bounded by M.iin St., Mil
ton aveni^, Gattis St., Pago St.,
Myrtle Drive and Oregon Road.
' Hie Brookstown Negro cummu
hity is a smaller community lt>
cated within the confihi^ls of ti;e
192 , jract, Its principal street
are Thasien avenue. Rowan, Gal
tis, Page, and Faber sti’eets, ,Ca,
well and James Places a.'d S‘#ift
avenue.
Approximately 80 Negro families
live in the area. Churches
major denominations are located
in the community. They ore West
Durham Baptist, on Thaxton ave
nue, and Mt. Olive A. M. E. Zion,
on Powe street.
City ^Platoing Director Paul
Brooks, who presented a study by
his dcpartifnent to the Zoning and
Planning Commission which mad
(he dedaration, pointed. tha
the study showed 73 percent of
tiie structures in the area t) be
blighted under a definition sup
plied by the state urban redevel
opment law.
Brooks also pointed out during
the meeting of the Commission
that Duke University is interest
ed in the area as a possible add -
See BLIGHTED, 6 A
DUNN — The president ofi
the state NAACP came out in
strong support last week of the
Rev. B. B. Felder, local NAACP^
president here who has been
under fire from Negro and
white groups for his role in pro
test demonstrations staged here
recently.
Kelly Alexander, of Charlotte,
state NAACP president, said
in a letter this week that Rev.
Felder's action were in line with
practices and policies of the
NAACP, praised his efforts and
described Peer’s role as one
with a “high sense of respon
sibility, honor, demotion and de
dication.”
“I would like for you to know"
Alexander said in the letter,
“that I endorse his (Rev. Feld
er's) leadership and as president
of the North Carolina State Con
ference of Branches I shall give
him my utmost support. . . .'
The letter was addressed to
Harry Satterwhite, chairman oi
the deacon board of St. John
Baptist Church and a leader in
Negro and community affairs
hpre.
Felder had come under sharp
criticism lor his tactics in sup
porting demonstrations here. He
was finally urged to resign aa
NAACP president.
The controversy over Felder
See FELDER, 6-A
ALEXANDER
MORE DURHAM MARCHERS
A spokotman for the D u r-
bam groups which are sponsor
ing a doUfratlon from tha city
to take part in the "March on
Washington** aexl. Wednesday
aaid late this waek there is rel
plontly of space aTaiiable fox
persona who wish to take pari
In the movement.
Miss Joyce Ware, chairman of
See MARCH. 6 A
Freak Accident
Mars Grid Drills
At Area School
Plans Revealed
For Assembling
Throng in Wash.
WASHINGTON. D. C. — "Hie
March on Washington, origirallv
called On July 12 by the “big six”
James Farmer, Martin Luthor
King. Jr., John Lewis, A. Philip
Randolph. Roy Wilkins, and Whit
ney Young—has been joined by
Mathew Ahmann, National Catho
lie Conference for Interracial
Justice; Eugene Carson Blake, Na
tional Council ci Churches; Joa
chim Prinz, American Jewish Con
gress and Walter Reuther, UAW,
AFL-CIO.
Marchers on Washington plan lo
convergo on the Capitol from all
point* of tho compass. group
from Brooklyn CORE will walk to
Washington; Union Station offi
cials in tho District of Columbia
report that an oetimatod 35 to 40
tpocial "Frtedom" trains will bt-
gln arriving August Itth from the
South, North and West.
Washington, D. C. police i»ill
move private car traffic oft the
streets in areas surrounding the
Washington Monument in order to
make room for the parking of 2,
173 buses.
The Civil Service Commission
has advised Federal Agencies Co
be “as liberal ai possible,” in giv
ing priority to vacation requests
lot August 28. The Jtew Jerwiy
Turnpike Authority annonced that
its complete services will be alert
ed to provide maximum help for
pec^ons traveling to and from the
massive one-day demonstratiou.
Previous estimates of lOO.OUO
Marchers for the August 28 dem
onstration were, said A. Philip
Randolph, this week, ‘‘much, nucb
below what we now expect.”
The Marob iB, to highlight Ne
gro demands for 1) Meantogful
Civil Rfghta Laws 3) Kassive f'eu-
eral works Program 3) Fuff and
Fair Employment 4) Decent Hou»-
ing 9) The Right to Vote and Bl
Adequate Integrated . EducaUcd.
“Negroes will no lon^at subeUI •
humiliation, even U it eeeta tfaeM
See
Durham NMCP
To CpiDplete
March Plans
A freak accident suffered by
a Hillside high achool athlete
marred the first week of pre
season football frills which got
underway at Durham area high
II iiiK lua viaiiiiiiA !.«•• ■
He explalhed further that the, •^^oois this week,
training period would last ap ' ’
See BUS, 6-A
McNEILL LEAVES MARY P(\TTER
North Carolina Teachers Get New Executive
RALEIGH — Fred D. McNeiU I the 1M}^S achool year, h 1 s
Jr., former football coach and | football record wu the best in
biology teacher at Mary Potter nearly 20 yeara at Mary Potter.
&vin Ke^ up
Attacks onC:R
WASHINOTOW I— Senator
Sam Brvin, conUi uing hia at-
* taAa OB m««a«t« attacking
* -raeiel aegreftion . nd diacrlmi-
aatlon, called Ibr
vestigation « the
pMlmeBt’i aotliMB
lag piilitary bMe
M plac* •'o»
.wbich refused to
I mite'
High. School, Oxford, has been
appointed Field Repreaentative
of the North Carolina Teachers
Association. He wilt aaauroe hia
new dutlea September 1.
A native of Durham, BtfcNeill
earned the B. S. in IMS, M. S.
in 1#87 from North Carolina Col
lege with additional study at
North Carolina College, Wie-
consin State College and North
Carolina State, Ra'elgh. He was
an oustanding halfback on the
NCC football team during his
student days at the college.
Q^,^t >i1pi^BwtlM Church, he
a^ed u MBiaiUnt Buoday
serve Negro' School Superintendent, a supply
4-A (Mcher «ad • OiutiBC
Senate in-
Defenae De-
tn tnatruct-
He also served as the schooi’a
public reiatioiu officer. He ap
peared in the 5th edition ol
Leaders In American Sei^Bce.
A life member of the Nation
al Eduoatkm Association and
American Teachers Association.
He holda membership in the Na*
tional Science Teachen Anocia-
tion,‘ American institute of Bio-
logicali Sciences. American A»-
aociatien tor the Advancement
of Science, National Association
of Biology Teachers and the
North Carolina Academy oj
Sciences.
A iriember of the XJnlfied Pro*
feHion since entering 6 yeari
See IMcNIIU 6-A
McNIILL
The accident resulted In
broken leg for Ricky Alston,
sophomore halfback for I|iU-
side.
Coach Russell Blunt said It
was the most fantastic acciden
he has seen in his long year*
of coaching in colleges and high
schoola. “I couldn’t believe it,’
Blunt said.
■ He reported that the young
ster, who is hospitalized at Lin
coln, ie improving nicely.
Blunk explained that Alston
was ruWlng along in a relative
ly straiiiit course when all o#
sudden *e lost iX balance and
*ell to the grev ' | breaking the
femur bone.
“We were 4 f complete loss
USHERS GET MONEY rORiment of a home for uawod
HOME — Robert Rogers, pre- mothers at Franklinton. Pro-
sidont of the Durham Junior I gresa reports on tho homo pro-
Ushers Union, presents check f^l Joct will bo on* of tha ieatitres
$125 from the Juniors to Jehnagr of the organisation's annual
Betts, official of the Durham | eoBTontion now underway at
Union to be uaed lor develop-1 Charlotte.
McKissick Family to be Hpnored
At Ushers Convention on Friday
Plans to fend a
tht Durham NAACP IB pertVlpeH
in tho Aug«s* M Mank «• Wesk
ington will nanfleHd at t*te
organ liatlen's regular wnwthly
mtoting Sunday eWerween at fevr
o%:tec|c et the St. Pa«l Baptiil
Church.
The Bee. Jaiwee AfWrewe, praei
dant ol the Dvrham NAACP. said
this week thet hi* group otapes *o
have eneufh psnewa le chaHfer
I several bueea Mr Wte trip te tke
nation's cepttel BOKt .Wedneedey.
*rewn ato* reveeM Mm* I. O
'|>urg. ane of Utree Pwriieiw
|tors fer the marcli, wHI he
speeker at SwMey’e
the NAACP.
the aaeeMng wNI be
Mm Ml. Calvary ChrtM-
t. Faul Bef*i«t choirs.
I Be»tist le leceted e«
CHi^LOTTE
be presen
A citation to
nted to the Floyd B.
McKissick family of Durham is
one of the highlighta of the 80th
annual convention of the North
Carolina I n t erteOK>nvinatiotul
Ushers convention whiigh was
scheduled to open here T^rs-
day.
The entire family, including
Mrs. McKissick and the couple’s
four children, Joyceln, Andree.
Charmaine and Floyd, Jr., were
to be honored in the citation for
their participation in the strug
gle hy Kegroe ^ o r first class
citizenahip.
The citation was to be present
ed Friday night by L. E. Austin,
lieved ,
to avoid a tackle or if he setp-
^i.i» had been trying • «
Atty. McKissick, a veteran
nlng signaU With a .ddree. the Friday night
^er b«:k. and there wm a^ nilette* at which the ciU-
lutely no body contact. We check uon-wHHw a*de
ed the p^und where he was ru^ PreaidS A«tJn »id the]
ning, and there were no holes, orifJwUy planned to
Set ACCIDENT, 6 A &o»or only HcKlASick hinvselt
^ut as th4y surveyed M;
sick’s efforts, they grai
understood that McKissicV
tributions to the movemi
racial equality were
against the background
■upport from his family
In fact, Austin said
contributions to the n
have been made by s
dividual members of
besides the father.”
He made specific r.
the youth NAAC»> v
McKissick daughter
§ad Andree.
Aside from the ti" ,
an address by the
Sherrill, executive •
the State Baptist
and reporta on dev€
the uahers home at
are expected to sh
tention of delegates.
Sherrill will spesi
day at the final aessi
The convention is
at the ITnivereit
Church.
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