Monroe Telephone Company Demands $500 Deposit For P^ttiS
SCOUTER HONORED—Dr. Miles
Mark Fisher, left, pastor and
instifutional representative of
White Rock Baptist Church here.
is presented a plaque by Henry
Gjllis, right,- Districf Scout Exe
cutive, at the 22nd Annual Par
ent Banquet at White Rock Bap
tist Church on Monday nlqht,
February 10, in honor of his
dedicated service to scouting
activities.
—Photo by Purefoy
Wheeler Named President
Southern Regional CounciJ—
NX., S.C. Hosp'Is
Get SIVz Million
From Duke Funds
John II. Wheeler, u long-time numerous other organizations of ~
member of the executive coin
mitlce of Ihy North Carolina
Council on Hwnan Relations has,
been elcctcd president of the •
Southern Regional Council at its
annual meeting in Atlanta last '
week.
Wheeler, who is president of
Mechanics and Framers Bank in
Durham, becomes the fifth pre- ^
sidcnt of the Council in its |
twenty years of existence. He fol- '
lows such distinguished former :
presidents as the late Dr. How- f
ard Odum, Marion A. Wright of ;
Linville Falls, North Carolina j
and Dr. James McBride Dabb.‘! of
Mayesville, South Carolina.
Irr addition to heading the lar
gest Negro bank in the two Ca-
rolinas Wheelers is Chairman of
the Durham Committee on-Ne-,
gro Affairs and affiliated with
the city, state and nation.
JOHN H. WHEELER
Charlotte Businessmen to Speak
Two Charlotte Businessmen,
Alex Buford and W. B. Taylor,
Sr., will be speakers at the re
gular meeting of the Durham
Business and Professional Chain
Wednesday, February 19 at the
BHtmore Hotel at 1:00 o’clock
p. m. Both men arc being pre
sented as part of the Chain's
program to assist local busines.s-
es in obtaining information'
which will be helpful in meet
ing problems resulting from
Durham’s Urban Renewal Pro-
r*,'
gram.
Each of these persons has had
many years of experience operat
ing successful enterprises. Both
have establishments located in
t h e University Park Shopping
Center in the City of Charlotte.
Buford owns and operaes a
modern dry cleaning establish
ment and Taylor ows and
Operates several modern, well
equipped barber shops.
The Business and Professional
See BUSINESSMEN 6A
CHARLOTTE — Approprin-
tiores of $1,483,30136 to ^Id Ca
rolina hpspitals and child care
institutions in financing their
increasing load of charily work
were announced this week by
trustees of The Dukg Endow
ment.
The funds, based on ch&rit)
care in the fiscal year which i,nd-
ed Sept. 30, 1963, are beiny dis
tributed to 143 hospitals and 43
child carj institutions in tho two
states. Hospitals receive $9«2,921
Of the totaf and child care in
stitutions $490,381.38. The 10.')
North Carolina hospitals gel
$658,783 and 38 in South Caro
lina $;?34,138. Twenty six North
Carolina child care institutions
get $326,431.62 and 17 in South
Carolina, $163,949. 74. The total
for^Iitorth Carolina is $985,214.-
62 and South Carolina $498,087.-
74.
Figures released by Thomas L.
Perkin'S, chairman of Thp Endow
ment, show that these appropri
ations bring to $36,814,175.36
the contributions made in 39
consecutive years to assist hos
pitals and child care institutions
See HOSPITAtS 6A
Jury Unable to
Agree on Verdict
For Accused Man
JACKSON, Miss. — Unable to
agree a verdict after 11 hours of
deliberation', the 12 white men
composing the jury, in the trial
of Byron de la Beckwith, accused
slayer of NAACP Mississippi
leader Medgar Evers, were dis
missed by Judge Ix;on F. Hend
rick in Hinds County Court
here shortly before noon, Friday,
Feb. 7.
Beckwith, who during the
trial put up a front of gay bra
vado, appeared dismayed as the
jury returned with the acquittal
he ap^aarcptly had anticipated.
The mistrial, resulting from the
inability of the jury to reach
a verdict, would indicate a fu
ture retrial of Beckwith on the
murder charge.
Mr. Evers was shot in the
bacjt from ambush as he stepped
from his car to enter his Jack-
sonr home on the night of j’wne
11-12, 1963. He was returning
from an NAACP civil rights
rally during the height of mass
dcmon.sfrations irr that city under
his leadership.
Ten days later Beckwith, an
avowed segregationist, a menaber
of the White Citizens Counreil
and fertilizer salesman, was ar-
>csted in his home city of
Greenwood on evidertce dug up
by the Federal Bureau of In
vestigation. A rifle sight found
near'the ambu.sh lair where the
slayer waited for the NAACP
loader was traced to Beckwith.
Although there was no eye
witness to the crime. District AV
■orno.y William L. Waller pro^
juced an i arrayof wftnesse*'
.vhose testimony linked the ac
cused man to the killing. The
witnesses for the prosecution
•jave testimony identifying Beck-
'vilh’s fingerprints on the rifle
urht and indicating his owner-
Hiip of t h e gun, his irrquiries
'-bout the location of the Ever’s
'lome, ard the presence* of his
\utomobile ne«r the .murder spot
that nighti '■'! I
For the defei+s(i, two Green
wood police officers testified
they saw Beckwith’s i car in
See MISTRIAL, 6A
^TViFTruthIjInbriqLeo*^
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VOLUME 1 — 7
DURHAM, N. C., 27702, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1964
RETURN REQUESTED
PRICE; IS CenU
Carver Federal Opens
Downtown N. Y. Office
CARVER OPH.-'ING—The -bove
photo ,was Jitalcert dvifinj^ the
downtown afflce of the Carver
Federal Savings and Loan Asso
ciation df New York City. Thfr
Association was organiiad in
1949 and npw has assets ‘.I over
f24 million. Those in the picture
from left to right are J..S. Stew
art president of the Mutual Sav
ing* and Loan Associatiitn of
Durham who brbught felicita
tions from the Durham institu
tion; Ervin M. Burrow, manager
of the new office and Joseph E.
Davis, president of Carver.
Miss. Police'.Beat,?ln Jail
•T, JOSEPH'S SCOUTERS—PIc-
Iwred here are the Den Mathers,
Scout official* And member:
Boy Scout Troop No. 105 and
rack N. 295 of St. J*eph'» A.
m. I. Church who parfeipated
in th« ctltbratfon of th» Boy
Scout Wtelt proaram Feb. 9^
during tho Sunday morning torv-
icM of the church. .N. H. Bon-
nett ia chairman o( the Troop
Committee of St. Joteph'i. Otii-
et membori are, J. ihwood Car*
ter, Lea W. Smith, H. M. Ml-
chaux, G. H. Rhodes, W. M.
Grandy, M«Hh*w ThompMtt,
Gilbert Harden,, J. W. ^inton,
M. Hugh Thompson 9. Si. Fra
iler, J. C. Scarttorough, Hi., W.
G, Pearion, It, Uuther Williams,
Jr., J, C, ScarhMough, 1,1, Tr.
t. D. Brown, Sr., and i. B.
Smith.
—Pholo by Punio;
Merciless Assault
Follows Voter-
Register Meeting
CANTON, Miss. — Following
a CORE voter registration moet-
i n g February 3rd at Pleasant
Green Church, police picked up
two Negro youths, took them to
thp jail and beat them merciless
ly. The two are Arthur Harris
and Will Galloway.
Both have filed affidavits with
the U. S. Department of Justice
and CORE is pressingg the De
partment to act. Harris charges
lhat after being taken inside the
jail, police beat him with a rub
ber base, broke a nightstick over
his head, started to dry-shave
him and fitrally shot him, at
closg range with a gun contain
ing blanrk cartridges. Galloway
rliarges that he was pummeled
b,' police behind the jail.
CORE Field Secretary Dave
Dennis pointed out that the
brutality against the two youths
vas a coirtinuation of police in
timidation which has marked
the voter registration drive.
Seventeen voter registration
workers were arrested on var
ious charges withinr the week of
January 20-27. The largest group
including four CORE Task Force
workers and six community lead
ers, recently were tried, found
guilty and given sentences rang-
irrg from 30 days to eighteen
months and heavy fines. Alma
Bosley received the heaviest sen
tonce. The four CORE Task
Force workers got six months.
See POLICE tiX _ ^
L. B. Frasier Elected Chairman
Citizens Advisory Committee
At a recent meeting o f t h e
Citizens Advisory Committee,
Program for Community Im-
provemerrt. L. 6. Frasier, Asso
ciate Agcncy Director of North
Carolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company was elected Chairman.
Other Officers elected were
Frank Creel, District Manager,
Public Service Gas Company,
Vice Chairman; and Mrs. Guy
E. Ailing, Director, YWCA Sec
retary.
The Citizens Advisory Com
mittee. was appointed by ttie
Mayor, June 19, 1961 at which
timp James O. Holt, Jr., Secre
tary Treasurer. Security Savings
and Loan Association, was
named Chairman of the sixty
membership committee and serv
ed until he was succeoded by
Frasier. The objcclive of the
committee is to fo^er commu-
i nity-wide participation on Hhe
part of individual and representa
tive citizens' organizatior’s and
neighborhood groups; and to
take part in developing and
carrying out the program for
community improvement. The
organrization is to review and |
advise the City Government on;
i the Program for Community Im-1
I provement. including the Urban
I Renewal Program. Community
! Planning. Code Enforcement,
j Housing for Displaced Families.
! Administrative Orangization atrd
methods of Financing the Pro
gram.
Frasier, air Bxcriilive of North
L. B. FRASIER
Va. NAACP Atty.
S. W. Tucker in
Congress Race
RICHMOND,’ Va. _ S. W.
Tucker, a member of the NA.'\CP
Board of DirCL'lors and a mem
ber of tile Legal Redress Com-
inillee of the Virginia Stal(. NA-
ACP, has announced his candi-
, dacy for Ihi,. U. S. House of Re-
' prc.sentatlves.
I Tuekcr will he rumiing against
tiie pre.sciil Ripresenlativc for
llu' Virginia Fourdi Congression-
' al District, avowed .segregation-
I' l.'ii. Watkins M. Abl)itt. AbWtt is
a iiieniber of llie Byrd machine.
Tiieker lias been an active NA-
A C P attorney since 1949. As
chairman of the Virginia legal
staff, his attacks on Virginia's
segregated school system and
See ATTY. B-A
Branch Headed
By Native of
North Carolina
NEW YORK ^ Tile opening
of j^lie'new branch of the Carver
Federal Savings and Loan Asso-
■ ;i.l. ath A.vennp anrl !Mrd
SI reel here on February Isl
marked another and significaat,
niilllstone iq^ the growth and de-
vcl6pment of New York City’.s
largest aiYd most sulwtantial
business ^operated principally by
Negroes.
^Oi'^aUi^ed b^k in.* 1949 by
Jo.seph E. Davis, a n«tive of Tar-
boro, N, C. and graduate of
Norlli Carolina Callage at
Durham and seyeral other enter*
prising citizens of New York,
Carver Federal has had a steady
aird remarkable growth under
the Icadersliip of Davis who has
bi'en its managaiiig officer since
tiie beginning.
Total assets reported at the
annual shareholders meeting
held recently revealed that the
as.sociatiOn had fesouroei as of
December 31, 1963, Of $24,442,-
179. This according to Davis, re-
preserrts a gain of 16 per cent
ovOr total assets reported at the
annLiiil shareholders meeting the
previous year.
Said Davis further;
■‘Net savings gains during
1963 total $2,915,673, increasing
tlie instituti(>n’s total saying.«!
balance o $30,765,389. Total di-
virtends paid during 1963 reach
ed a record $700,973. and this
higli return on savings has help
ed increase the association’s to-
t.'il number of savings accounts
to 37,142.
We are happy to report that
.KK) mortgages were closed for a
total of $5,538,357 in 1963, there
by incrca.sing our mortage portio
lio to a record $21,064,”
Among the prominenrt visitors
who were on hand to exta»d eon-
Kraliilalions'to the a.ssociation on
I lie opening of the downtown of
fice was J. S. Stewart, President
of the Mutual Savings arrd Loan
Association of Durham. Stewart
is also a charter member of Car-
Sec CARVER 6A
Harrassment lurned on Mallory-
Monroe Defense Committee
MONROE — Following the ex
tradition of Mrs. Mao Mallory
last moath from Cleveland,
Ohio to Monroe, the headquart
ers of the Monroe Defense Com
mittee was immediately transfer
red to this city, where it later
raised the cash bond of $10,000
lhat was demanded for Mrs. Mal
lory’s release after she was
brought to Monroe and jailed.
In addition to demanding the
hnpH nf 'f.innnn H.i. Tjr.r
roc Telephone Company has ap
parently thrown its weight to
the side of Mrs. Mallory’s op
pressors by demanding a $500
deposit before it will install a
telephone in the headquarters.
This, in the face of the fact that
thp Monroe Defense Committee
established a clear rccord of pay
ing its telephone bills for the
two an(J a halt years it was in
Cleveland.
MONROE
Gov. Sanford to
Speak at Local
Church Sunday
The President of Covenant
United Presbyterian Men, J. Dorr-
aid Astwood, has announced that
Governor Terry Sanford will be
the Brotherhood Speaker at the
Church cvi Sunday, February 16,
at 4:00 p. m. The Church is lo
cated on the corner of Lincoln
and Massey Streets and the pub
lic is invited.
A nationally knows business
mart', J. H. Wheeler, President of
Mecharit;s and Farny^g Banlc
'will introduce CJo'vemor Sanford.
The program theme for the
meetirrg is “Human Brotherhood
and the Public InterMt.” The lec-
retary of the local United Pres
byterian Men, Carl Hodgcii will
preside. Arrangementa for the
special brotherhood program
were made b,v Dr. 'C, E. Buul*
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