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VOLUME 40 —
DURHAM, N. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1963
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MPOT'OPWT WINNERS — N.
C.. iCaihia*'!; moot court ttim
nMmlMTt l)«t*n to an intcrpra-
ItHoA' af' ■ 1««al decvmant by
tlWr MiyiMr, NCC law Proiat-
Mr SykH J. Dadmond, aaatad.
TIm vr*(ip, fraah from triumphs
bi 4h* Powitaonth Annual Na
tional Moot Court ComptHtlon.
raochad tho final* in a two-day
compotltion^mong alovan law
•chools in Raston VI in CHaila*-
ton, Waat Virginia, Satur^ty.
Tiw NCCf toam, wbicli do^t-
ad teams from tha Univarsity of
Sovtti Carailina and tha Univar-
sity of ^■^rth Cartnna, tost to
t)ia Univartity of Virjitnia. Both
teams will participate in nation
al finals in Doeeml>ar.
Stinding: William Hill, Elm
hurst, New York; Maynard H.
iackson, Jr., DuthaMi: and lia
L. Williams, Brookl/li, N. Y.
Governor, Mayor
And Clergy are
Cited for Deeds
Governor Terry Sanford and
some 300 delegates kicked ofi' tlie
annual meeting of the Western
North Carolina Conference of the
Afri(!an Methodist Episcopal (A
ME) here this week with a wel
come dinner at the North Caro
lina College cafeteria.
Remaining aspects of the cun
ference will be held at St. Joseph’t
AME Church on Favetteville S',
where the conference will, con
tinue until Sunday, Nov. 24.
The Rev. Melvin Chester Swanu
minister of St. Joseph’s Will bn
host pastor.
Presenting the main address be
fore the conferenc, Governor San
ford urgd the churchmcn here
Wddnsday night to tap the "vasi
reservoir of good ww.” stored up
in all people as a means of solv
See CTTSD, B-A
K9rtb Carolina College’s moot
cfui^, team argued Its way to the
o a four-state regional
duriqg tha Fourteenth An-
Iniiil Nathnuii Moot Court Com-
'Mt, ciitfleston, West
V](Whla, Nov. 16-16 and became
thf^irst Negro law school group
in its region to win a berth in
Dia oatioml finals of the Na-
tftMial Moot Cbwt Competition.
.Uaynard H. Jaokson, 29, a
•eUior from Durham, won a silv
er cup awarded by the Ameri
can College of Trifl Lawyers for
the biiat indlrid^ oral argu-
n^ent
.Other membert of the NCC
team are WlUUf^ Gaines Hill.
East Elmhurst, K- V., ind Ira L.
Williams, 6r(K)IUyh, N. Y. The
faculty adviser is Professor Sy
bil J. DMmond. ,
The NCC teilli,' entering the
final round Of a^uments against
the Universitjr^ Virginia Law
School in the West Virgina Su
preme Court of Appeals In Char
leston Saturday, lost the decision
to the Virginians.
Th, three-man teams of both
NCC and Virginia were fiwJshers
in the two-'day competition
BmoAg eleven law schools com
prising Region VI, iiiciuding
Both finalists ,wiil represent the
Virginia,-> West Virginia, North
Carolina, ^nd South Carolina,
region in arguments in the na
tional finals in New York City
in Decemijer.
In the preliminary round
Friday morning, the University
of South Carolina defeated Duke
University; the University of
North Carolina defeated Wash
ington anrd Leg University; and
the University of Virginia de
feated the University of Rich
mond. North Carolina College,
South 'Carolina State College.
Wake Forest College, West Vir
ginia University and tlie College
bye. *
of William and Mary drew s
In the quarter finals. North
Carolina College defeated the
University of South Carolina; the
University of North Carolina de
feated William and Mary; Wak'
Forest defeated South Carolina
State; and the University oi
Virginia defeated West Virginia
In the senai-finals. North Ca
rolina College defeated the Uni
versity of North Carolina, and
the University of Virginia de
£eated Wake Forest.'
All teams argued a hypotheti
cal federal criminal case involv
ing questions of search and seiz
ure, arrest inculpatory state
ments, the McNabb-Mallory doc
trine and due process require
ments imder the Fifth Amend
ment.
Williamston Citizens Cirding
For New C-R Demonstrations
Five Boston Ministers Remain
In Jail As Tension Mounts
BISHOP S. L. GREEN, presiding
prolate of the Second Episcopal
District of ttie A.M.E. Church, ii
shown above ps he w» presid
ing ovar tha 71st annual mooting
of the Western North Caroim
Conference, In setsi'.:n here t'lis
week at St. Joseph's A.fn.b.
Church.
CONFERENCi PARTICIPANTS
—.from left to right they are
kav. D. Williamson, Rev. C. S.
Gant, Rav. Xalvln A. Stroud,
Rav. Malvin Chaster Swann, Rav.
J. D. Davis, Rav. P. B. Walker
and Rav. J. T. McMillan. Seated
is Bish«p Oraan.
Rocky Mount Host To NAACP
Regristration-VoteWork Shop
ROCKY MOUNT — The re
vitalized Rocky Mount Branch of
Candidate For
AME Pension to
Visit Conference
Among the nolea personalities
cxpected to attend the annual
session of thg Western North Ca
rolina Conference of the A. M-
E. Church which convened at
St. Joseph AME Church here,
Wednesday mwrnlng, is the Rev
J. M. Cranberry, Jr., pastor of
the St. Paul AME Church of
Columbia, Tenness^
Rev. Granl>erry , who is a
candidate for secretary-treasur-
See CANDIDATE. 6-A
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Martin V. Cooka,, vlc»«hairmafl’
•f lha truatai board.
APOLOGY AND RETRACT^ION
EI>ITOK’S NOTE: In ci>nii)liiim:c with a writtin re
quest accompanied l)v an artklc su^./oscdly sent Uu- ( ar--
olina Times4>y one ^lrs.___,Sy)yia .\.kins of 1 U> WoiMllHnd
.‘\venuf, Rocky Minmt, North C :iVi>liiia, we in
the Noveinijer 2 edition of the taroiina limes an ar'icle
concerning tlie Mount Zion |{H|>tist ChurclT of the H’.'jve
mentioned city. We have recently been-iniornicd that
no such person as Mrs. .Sylvia .\tkins exi.'-'^ in KocKy
Mount nor i.s tliere such an address as ll-j Wood'ind
Avenue in that city.
In our desiVe to serve all of our readers to *^l e ln-sc of
our ability the Carolina Times has tliroujjh the years
endeavored to provide a forum for all per.sons desiring
to u.se its columns. Naturally jt would he iinprrctical
for our staff to attemi)t to investigate the source or the
authenticity of every articfc sent us for publiration.
We regret and a|>ologize for the' publication of the
above mentioned article and herewith retract itt, con
tents.
' L. E. AUSTIN, Publisher
the National A|sociation for the
Advancement of Colored People
CNAACP) is host this week —
Novemijer 22-24 at the St. John
AME Zion Church. To a State
wide Registration anrd Vote
clinch untter the joint sponsor
ship of the N. C. NAACP Con
ference headed by Kelly M. Ale
xander, Sr., ai»d the N. C. Youth
Council and College Chapters
with Quentin Paker, president.
Many other distinguished NA
ACP personalities are expected
to participate.
Such names as Clarence Mit
chell Jr., Mrs. Daisy Bates of
Littl^ Rock, Arkansas fame;
Georgia State Senator Leory
Johnson; John Brooks, NAACP
National Voter - Registration
chairman Atty. Floyd B. McKis-
See BATES, 6-A
Charge Against
Cafeflanager
Is Tlirown Out
A white Duke student’s char
ge against a downtow,ji c a f e-
teria manager, for alleged at
tack on him as he tried to leave
Harvey’s cafeteria with his Ne
gro dinner date, was thrown
out of court last week by Judge
A. R. Wilson.
Andy Moursand, _ political
science student at Duke, had
filed charges against Joseph
Pendergrass, 60 year old assis
tant manager of Harvey’s Cafa-
teria at 105 E. Main St, for al-
legdly harassing and attacking
him as he had dinner with a Na-
gro femal* student at' Duke,
See CHARGi, 6-A 1
WILLIAMSTON — Three na
tionally prominent civil rights
leaders plan to renew demon
strations here this week-end,
with a march to a nearby Voice
of America transmitter site.
According to members of the
Congress of Racial Equality,
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr..
and Rev. Ralph Abernathy, ol
the Southern Christian Leader
ship Conference, and Floyd B
McKi.ssick, National Chairman of
CORE, are scheduled to partici
pate as the prinrcipal speakers
at the Sunday afternoon freedom
rally in which the truth of the
Williamston demonstration will
travel around the world via the
Voice of America.
Demonstrations started in this
northeastern North Carolina
town of 6,000 last week when
15 Northern white ministers de
fied a court order and led an
anti-segregation march through
The city.
Policg jailed the minister and
54 Negroes when they staged a
three-block long protest. They
were charged with parading with
cut a permit, unlawful assembly
and obstructing traffic. All were
placed under $500 dollars bonds
Once in jail, the ministe,-s
staged a fast in protest of (he
segregated Martin County jail.
At the end of last week, segre
gation ended in the jail and the
ministers resumed eating.
On Friday night, 22 more Ne
groes were jailed, among them.
Golden Finks, of the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer-
■ence.
See MINISTERS,, 6-A
NAACP Aims for 100,000 New
Voters In Nortli Carolina Drive;
Campaign Ib Open in January
CHAKLOTTE^ Kelly M. Alex ]
ander, President of the North Car
olina State Conference of Branch
es announced this week that the
North Carolina Stale NAACP Con
ference will launch a vigorous
register and vote statewide, nci
partisan campaign to begin o
January 1, to get every Negro in
North Carolina who is qualified
Jjj-egistpr and vof.
The immediate'goj' of ihe caM-
paign is to get at least J00.00'
new Negro registered voters
There are approximately 195.000
Negro voters in North Carolina
and an additional 100,000 will in-
create the Negro voting strengtn
to 295,000.
The campaign will be under
the Supervision of Rev. Charles
Ward, of Raleigh, who is Chair
man of the North Carolina State
Conference NAACP Political AF^
tion Committee. The implementa
tfon of the voter registration wil
be on the Congressional District,
County and Community levels, by
the NAACP leadershio. More than
100 branches are in the process
of organising Voter Registration
Committees to activelv engage it
fjet\u^S the job done on the coin
njlifllty levrt.
TTie Vouth Councils and Colle.'
Chapters will play an important
part in the voter registration
campaign. Quinton leaker. Presi
dent of the North (^olina State
Conference of Youth^ouncils and
College Chapters wfll siipervise
the jfouth phase of the voter regis
tration csrapmgn. ,Th? NAACf
See VOTERS, 6 A ,
1—'
FOR CHILD DENTAL CARE—
Dr. Duncan M, Gattlngar Dur*
ham, spaciallit in dentistry to
children, who last week served
clinician at the Dental Sympo
sium Ifl that city, talks with Or.
J. I£. Campbell, also of Durham,
vice prasidont of tha Old North
State Dental Society, and Dr. G.
K. Buttarfia^d^ Wilson.
Dental Symposium Draws Fifty
Nearly 50-dentlsts, frwn North
Carolina and border points in
Virginia, attended the Sixth An
nual Dental Symposiunt, spon
sored here last week by the Dur
ham Alexander Hunter Dental
Society.
The one^lay session, held at
the Lincoln Hospital on Wed
nesday, November 13, featured
scientific papers by prominenl
instructors in dentlstrjr ud lead
ers in the field and m pam«l for>
um by a group of visiting prae-
titioners.
‘..4J1 Olfiec Preeaitaiat «.](•
celvlng and Treating Children.”
was the subject of a presenta
tion by Dr. Duncan II. Gctslng
w, Duriiam specialut in child
dentistry.
Dr. W. R. Cavintiu, Depart
merrt of Oral Surgery, Duke Uni
versity Hospital, Durham, pre
sented a paper, "OnU Surgical
Procjslijtes.For The Genera:
PrgMltlonw^^'-^ Dr. Baxter B.
Sapp, also of puka ItBiwnritjr,
re^ a pap«r, “Som* Current
IVaBds la^Crown ma# Bridg*
ProtitaaiB.’'
tYMTIOfHIM, l-A