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To wish you peace and ^ ^
happiness for Christmas.
DURHAM, N. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1963
RITURN REQUSSTtn^
VOLUME 40 — No. 51
PRICE: 1$ Centi
miMtATULATIONS FOR NEW
r—William J. KennMy, Jr.;
•m ftoaid Chairman of
Cirelina Mutual Lift In
Company, sscond from
from thr*a\ memeers «f Dwr
ham't Boy't Uab f*r hi* rMmt
»lec(ion to tM NattMial BmmI
of DIracton of who ftcy't Clubi
of Amariea. CoMrattitatInf htan
Rw4 Jackw|i«^
i..rac«ivai congniulationi ara, laft ta r
Durham Banker Named To CED Post
RECISTRATION DRIVE OPENS
fna« and Mika Parker.
Ka^ady hat bean president
Du^An't Boy's Club tinea
Hl%..whan it wat firtf founded.
—Photo by Purefoy
Wilkins B/os/|/ Fuller
^ Speech At M6tgan State
'rlUS^MORE — Attacks upon
Supreme Court because i
t^^ilberal ruliagf In constitu-1
.‘Mfgefts as strong-
J'other illustra-1
' HM cDt^PViilg menace to I
»i’ Aijliarioan charter of fre:-|
chrat l^-Con*tltution,’ Roy Wil-i
e*^utlve secre
‘•'•ttnll«i^ of Morgaiij
SUnir^U«g« l>Bre on a program I
th'^ktiittrvanee of Bill of Rlghtt
I
>JIIk eveatfl at the Sixties, in'
,Civil right! fields, and piir-
^ ‘rly thote of 1963, must con ,
J|t« a warning to all Ameri-
|^''^ilcerned with safeguard-'
Aiil of Rights,’ he cor-
i
..linK to remarks recently'
ypy s. B. Fuller, at thej
-ishnual Congress of Ameri-1
^'^4ustry in New York, Mr. I
tiin* quoted the Chicago;
ik^facturer as having said
DR. DAWSON
5r000 New
Sought by Local
Durham Negro citizens ttart-
ed an all-out campaign to get ili>-.
grocs registered to vote here thU j
week, but have come up short ^
of the nwnber of people needed
to help carry on the voter-re-
gistration drive, according to an
NAACP spokesman.
John Edwards, field secretary
for the NAACP, said here this
week that the state-wide voter
registration drivg is schedule to
begin ah January, but that the
citizen's in Durham have started
earlier in order to have a suc
cessful and effective drive. He
said the expected amount of Ne
groes to register and vote ij J,-
th^ Negro has been heldi
l^k not by segregation and dis-1
(ritnination, but by his ‘lack of
iottictive, courage, integrity,
)»yalty end wisdom . . . unfortu-1
Oktely, the Negro believes there i
is ■ racial barrier in America i
which 'keeps tiim from succeed-1
ia(.* ^ «• I
In these remarks, the NAACP
asserted, ‘Mr. Fuller slanders
the great Ijody of Negro citizens ;
.^iii^ natioa. Ti»ey have shown ;
courage and persistence and de-'
termination against the kind of
odis no gambler would accept.:
TiKy have fought and overcome {
iMMUcaps tiiat no men should;
b* caU«d upon to face. They
Mv« struggled up by their boot-
See WILK.rtS, 2A
U: S. Supreme
Court Grants
Pidtets Hearing
•/»^HINGTON — The U. S.
Court Uiis week grant
ed a. petition from the NAACP
•Ai;ig the Court to decide
Mteth«r peaceful picketing to ad
\;«nce legitimate group intcrestj
la conatitutionaUy protected.
.IDe NAACP i» appealing a de-
^lon of the Florida District
C^ct.of Appeals which upheld
It Jpwer court rulifig that al-
thlMigh peacvful picketing by la-
unions if upheld by the Coi\,-
^ ume protection
pot extmd to racial groups.
, Ifl.. Decofnbef■ 1860, the St.
l^tecsburgb branch of the NA
ACP under leadership of lU
(^{dent, IUl|>h C. Wimblsh.
Picketed .WeW>’, City, a variety
•iorc chain. Pickets carrlid slgnr
£«• COURT, 2A
Local Physician
Gets Coveted
ABO Recognition
Dr. Robert E. Dawson, physi
cian and surgeon of 819 Lawson
Street, Durham, this week re
ceived the coveted recognition of
Diplomate of the Ainerican
Board of Opthamology.
He is the only Negro medical
man between WasKington, D. C.
and Nashville, Tenn., to hold
this recognition kr his field.
Dr. Dawsotr is chief of
the Eye, 'Ear, Nose and Throat
Service, at Lincoln Hospital
here. He is a native of Rocky
Mt., graduated from Wilson
High School, Clark University,
and Meharry Medical College.
He is married to the former
Miss Julia Davis of Summit, N
J. They are the parents of four
children: Diah« BUsabeth, 12
Janice Elaine, 10; Robert Ed
ward, Jr., 9 and Melanie Lor
raine, 3.
The physioian- and' surgeon
was formerly chief of Opthamo
logy at Scott Air Force Base,
111. He served in the U. S. Air
Force Medical • Corps from Oct
-ober, 1954, to January, 195 7
leaving the service with the rank
of major. , ,
In addition (o hiS'prvfeasion-
al and military activities, Dr
Dawson is a frequent participant
in civil and religious-events. Hi>
memberships include Alpha Phi
Alpha Frateri^ty, Thirty Sec
nnd de»ee Mason and Shriner
Executiv^^GMmtttee ol the Old
North State M^cal Svctety and
the National Medical Associa
tion. He serves as secretary in
the E. E. N. T. seotion of JNMA
Dr. Dawson wiorships at St..
Josaph AME Church whsrt be
Ssi PHYIICIAM. U ^
NCC to Give
NTE Examination
ToAf^teacher
Prospective teaohers in this
area will have air opportunity to
take the National Teachers Ex
aminations on February Ifl
1964, at North Carolina Collegr
according to Dr. F. G. Shipman,
chairman of the Department ol
Cducationr, wh(> will supervise
the administration ^f the tests.
Application blanks and Bul
letins of Information describing
registration procedures and con
taining representative test ques
tions n\ay be obtained from Ship
man or directly from the Na
tional Teachers Examinations,
Elducational Testing Service,
Princeton, New Jersey. Applica
tions must be mailed so as to
be received at the Princeton Of
fice not later than January 17,
Shipman advised.
Scores orr the National Tea
cher Examinations are used by a
large nunaber of school systems
and teachers education institu-l
tions throughout the country as
an aid in evaluating such of the
qaudfications ot prospective tea
chers as are measured by the
See f XAM, 2A
f UNOERSiirfo . ',V |||. I
L 0. Funderixira
New DPBC Prexy
At a recent meeting of the
Durham Business & Profession
al Chain I. O. Funderburg, Cash
ier, Mechanics & Farmers Bank,
was named President.
Funderburg is a graduate of
Moreiiouse College, the Graduate
School of Banking at Rutgers
University. He is a member of
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraterpity,
the Durham Committee oo Ne
gro Affairs, Past Commander of
the American Legion, and Mem
bership Chairman of the NA
ACP.
See PREXY, 2A
Registrants
Vote Committee
000 or more. He added however
that people in the Negro com-,
munity have not responded as
he had anticipated.
Edwards went on to say that
the local votcr-registration drive,
wiiich has its headquarters at the
Carolina Times building, will is
sue another call to the Negro
citizens of Durham to help with
the campaign.
“Wg need more people to do
door-to-door campaigning and
people wi4h cars,” said Ekiwards.
Edwards said that his group is
working in conjunction with the
Durham Committee on Negro Af
fairs, and that both groups plan
to carry on the program until
late next year.
J. H. Wheeler
Gets Post As
CED Trustee.,.
'A' Dftriiam Banker has been
n^med as a truster to the Commit
tee for Economic n>-velopmnt, It
'.vas announced earlier this week
by T. V. 'Ho"''er o Ue\f York
chairn'an of CLD.
John H. Wheeler [Sresident of
Mechanics and Far:Ti','rs Bank
Durham, is the il'st Durham N-
gro to becortie a member of tl.-
Committee for Economic Devel
opment,
CED is a 21-yea -old nonprofit
j nonjiolitica. reseach and educs
itional organization of 200 business
lexwutlvcs and educators who e;i
gaite in research on major no
rtitjal economic prob'ems with th-
1 purpose of promoiir.g high e^''
plbyment with st::ble economic
growth.
Wheeler, a native of Kittrel!
and a graduate of the Law Schoo'
of North Carolina Colleeg at Dur
jhani, has been with M'^chanics anc
[pihners Bank since 1929. He ■*'a.
.admitted to law practice in tin-
; courts of North Carolina (1947;
and the U. S. Supreme Court in
I IMS.
He is a member of ne Presi
dchfs Committee on Equal Em
ployment Opporunity, and a pas
president of the National Negro
Bankers Association.
TOYS FROM NCC — The**
North Carolina Collega coadt,
mambari of tsa Civic Committea
of th, schoel't Annie Day She-1
pard Dormitory, are shown 'with
gifts mada and puichhiad by
REV. MASON
FOR KSHYA. ATHICA WDE-
PENpENCe->|*iM Peggr Marlin
left. "Mlaa A, *Pd T.“. presanla
a cake, • from A. and T.
Celleff* shi4Mt»>. to Arnbu Wa-
takila. • (Hi^eiit at GuiUeitf
m4 K.
CcUai^
a student at A. and T. bolli fsMn
Kanra, Africa, program piirinei-
R«l* in Iba Kenya Indapendwc*
Cetebratiem held last w«*k al
A. and T. College. Miss 0«i>ava
H«lmes, advisor to foreign
dcat«-«t A. and T.. lM>ka nJtOM
r :
riglit.
More ihan 250-persons, includ
ing th» lS-«iud«iUs from Kenya
•uwlled in eolleges and univer
sities te North Carolina, attend
ed the event
Popular Minister
Slated for Anniv.
Of Mt. Vernon
The 76th anniversary of Mt.
Vernon Baptist Church will be
observed Sunday, December 29,
it was announced this week by
the pastor, the Rev. E. T.
Browne.
The anniversary sermon will
be preached by the Rev. W. L.
Mason, pastor of the St. James
Baptist Church of Rocky Mount.
Rev. Mason is a native of Dur
ham and is well known in church
and business circles throughout
the nation{\puring his ministry
he has pastoftd some of the
leading Baptist Churches of the
state and considered one of
the niost forceful and dynamic
See MINISTER. 2A
Kenya Freedom
GREENSBORO — More than
250-gueets of 16-students trom
Kenya, Africa, who are enroll
ed in North Carolina Colleges
and UnlversiCles celebrated Ken
ya’s newly secured independence
in a program at A. and T. Col
lege.
The program, held in the
Lutheran Gymnasium on the A
and T. cimpuS. drew a n urn bet
M KBHYA, ZA
the group for (listribution to. are, from laft: Janet Sims, Avon-
needy toU. The group recently! dale; Catherine Jordan, Oxford;
visited th« O'Berry School forj Marjorie Dunttan, Lawisburg;
the Mentally Ratarded at Golds- Ernettine Vines, Walstonburg;
boro and dis'jtibuted giftt. I and LaVerna Robinson, Lewis-
All North Caroliiuans, thaytburg.
Racial Demonstrations Renewed
In "Liberal-Minded" Chapel Hill
CHAPEL fflLL — Some 92ish)n. '
person! have been 'arrested herej a spfokesman for fh« tongiWBS
this week as a, results of renew- ^ of Racial Equality siid the re^
ed sit-in demoh'strations, at se- sent protest are being conducted
gregated eating establisBments,' in support of three persons aer-
after tht^» months of suspen- ving- 30*day sentences ill the Oi^
‘‘ large'Couht^ Jaft^iri nearby Hills
g ll i boro. The three - a white man,
NAAI V VNlC llQ,a Negro lady and a white lady
I IrliJ elected to serve an active sen-
^ AAA ' instead of paying a $50
UV6r jZUU.UUU It'"
^ \ T ' .staged here this summer. A four-
I" lw*| I) J ^ lady, paid the fine; she said
rOr ffHi^'DOnO ' could not remain in jail be-
* i#WII i cause she has a son stricken
NEW YORK — The National '
Association for the Advance- ■ . B. Dunn, an ex-UNC
meat of Colored People has put
up more than a quarter of a mil- | CORE sa^ ‘ This is only be-
lion dollars for ball for civil of wh^ cou d be a long
rights demwistratofs in 11 cities struggle,
in seven southern states, Roy i Another protest leader, Eugene
Wilkins, executive secretary, re-! Leak, Co-chairman of the Chapel
vealed today. ! Hill CORE, said that in addition
A total of $268,570 of the As-1 Protesting the jailings they
sociaUon's funds, as of Nov. de“trating for a
... • u -1 u public accomodation law, arrd
was tied up in bail bonds in ^ ’
. , , „ that they will "demonstration
areas where local resources were I „
..... „ ' until we get what we want. We
exhausted and where the author; j . j i.., „ ^
. J , . are prepared to do this, he add-
ities refused to accept property j
bontis, demanding cash. The ' * j
money is returnable upon final ’ *^«^ted here
settlement of the cases. : ^ 13, when three
groups of demonstrators staged
More than half the sum. $154,-1 , tu
1 hit and rur»s m several of the
See NAACP, 2A See DEMONSTRATIONS 2A
DBPC HOLDS ANNUAL OUTIK)OR
XMAS DECORATIONS CONTEST
The Durham Business and Professional Chain be^an its
Annual Outdoor Christmas Decoration Contest here last week
There will be competition in two separate categories—
according to D. F. Reed, co-chairman of the contest.
There will be competition in two separate categorirers—
Santa Claus and Religious Displays. Prizes will be awarded
for the best decorations in each division.
Persons interested in entering the cMltast may complete
the foIlo-iVing application and ipaO immedllltaly. Judging will
take place Sunday night, Dec. tt.
Xanic of Oi'tfanizatioii/Iiulivklual
.^(l(!r^■ss ......
Telephone
Tyjic of Entry: •
.''anta Claus
' Mail to D. F. Reed, Service Printing Co., 504 E. Petti?r!w
Street, Durham, N. C., Telephone aStrZOSt.