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Nominations for Annual Holy Land Contest Begin March 1st.
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NEGRO NAMED PHARMACY
Dr. Henry Peters
First of Race
To Head Bureau
WASHINGTON. D. C. — Dr.
Henry R. Peters, president of
Professional Pharmacyj Ind, has
been appointed Chief of the
Bureau of Pharmacies of the Di
strict of Columbia, it was an
nounced this weelt by Dr. Mur
ray Grant, D. C. Health Direc
tor.
In this newly created position
Dr, Peters will supcrv.sc all
pharmacy operation's of the D.
C. Department of Health, includ
ing those at D. C. General Hos
pital and at Glenn Dale Hospital
in Maryland. ^
His job will be to coordinate
the activities of all of the
Health Department’s pharmaceu-^
tical services and to establish
a rigid system to control the dis-
trlbutiton of dangerous drugs. In
addition to a secretarial staff,
he will supervise a staff of 28
pharmacists.
InTSirigation Indicafed Need for
Kew Position
‘ Two years ago an investiga
tion revealed that some $40,000.
00 worth of prescription drug?
iiad disappeared from the D. C
General Hospital. In addrtion, an
inventory unearthed what Dr
-PHrr»-caHed “a tfaingcrous~stttr-
ation from a public health point
of view”; that out-dated drug.'
were being used In some hos-
pials.
These di.scoverios, brought to
light during a period when Dr,
Peters^ was serving as the first
'4'1'cgro Chairman of the D. C.
pharmacy Board, convinced
Health Department officials of
the need for belter supervision
of the distribution of prescrip
tion drugs, and the need for
rrew legislation to curb unethical
practices among some pharma
cists.
As a member and officer of
the Pharmacy Board, Dr. Peters
had carried on a strong cam
paign to get officials to revamp
the District’s 1906 Pharmacy
laws.
He recommended that the D.
C., Pharmacjr Board regulate the
practice of pharmacy and the
sale of poisdrtous and dajigerous
drugs; Corvtrol the character and
standard of all drugs an;d me
dicines dispensed in the District
See PHARMACY 6A
UDOCH
VOLUME 41 — No. 8
DURHAM, N. C., 27702, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1964
RETURN REQUESTED
PRICE: IS Cent*
MAN IS BADLY BEATEN
BY DURHAM SHERIFF
Taken to Home
Of Officer For
Punishment
Polllce brutality, Mississippi
style, was uncovered by the Ca
rolina Times here this week
when two brothers of the Ba
hama section of the county re
lated how one of them was placed
under arrest by two Durham
County deputy sheriffs- and
taken to the home of one of the
police offiJcers and brUtally beat
en with a nightstick.
According to inward Evans,
43, a Negro resident of Bahama,
who resildes across the foad from
his brother, Robert, Deputies I.
E. Jacobs and Bill Jones came to
his home on the. attertioon of
January 25 and ordcr«4 him to
get in a car which thejr >yere
driving. Suspecting that lie had
violated some minor traffic law,
while driving enroute from Dur
ham to his home, he Obey^ the
officers. '
Instead of questioning him or
informing him as to why. he had
Ixsen ordered to get into, the car
car the officers drbv6 >to the
horhe of Deputy «)heriflf’ Jacobs
Sbe BEATEJN 6A
ROY WILKINS
NAACP Chief
Sees Passage
Of CR Measure
, h
NEW'YORK — The sweeping
■p.-i-iito KTO House v'ote
Pictured abora ar* Edward,
Erant, right:, who charges that i
hay was brutally beaten with
nFghlstlck at. the home of Deputy |
Sharlff J. E. Jacpbs on the after-1,
noon of January 25, after being
taken thare in a car by Jacobs
anil Deputy Sheriff Bill Jones
of the Durham County Sheriff's
Department. Edwardt, who waS
taken to Duke Hospital Ijy hit
brother Robert immediately iol-
lowing the beating, claims Ja
cobs struck him in the stomach
with the nightstick the first time
and on the arm the second time.
The blow on the arm fractured
the bone, Evans states he was
told by the examining physician
at the hospital. Phoio.by furefoy
3rd Plane Trip to Bible
Lands Offered By Times
Nigerian to Speak
At White Rock
Sun. Morning
Tile Honorable Julius Momo
Udochi, Ambassador of Nigeria
will be the Brotherhood Day
speaker at White Rock Baptist
Church Sunday, February 23, at
the 11 o’clock servfce.
The public is irrvited to hear
His Excellency.
Reverend RTiIes Mark Fisher
Is the pastor. A. T. Spaulding, a
member of White Rock’s Trus
tee Board is chairman of the
church’s Brotherhood Day Com
mittee.
Ambassador Udochi, a native
Nigerian, was educated in the
Government School of Auchl, in
the Catholic ScboQl at Ubiaja,
and reeeived his law degree in
London. He taught school for
■even years l>eginnlng in 1931.
In 1938 he becamc conmected
See iMiGERlAN, 6A
Nominations for the third an- —
nual Ministers Vacation Popular
ity Contest of the Carolina Times
will begin March 1, It was an
nounced this week by the Con-
test Manager. Irrqulries that
have been coming in to the 'times
office since the early part of
the year as to the starting date
of the contest indicate that in
terest is already running high
and that this year's contest will
see the names of many of the
state’s leading ministers enter
ed i>i the contest.
At stake again this year, in
addition to the free round trip
grand prike trip to the Holy
Land, are two other prises. TW
second is a free airplane round
trip to Bermuda and the third
a free airplane round trtp to New
York. In addlUort, all non-prize
winners will be paid a commis-
See CONTESt 6A
DR. BRQWN
Whitney Young,
Urban Lea^e
Official to Speak
Whitney Young, Executive Di
rector of the National Urban
League, wUl be featured as gueat
speaker at a luncheon sponsored
by the Durham AuaiUeu and
Professional Chain ou Friday,
February 28, at the. Biltmore
Hotel at 1:00 o’clock p. m. I. O.
Fundefburg, president of the
Chain, is urging all members and
interested citizens td attend the I
meeting. |
The Naional Urban League
See YOUNG 6A 1
NC Dean Named
Consultant at St.
Louis Meeting
Dr. William H. Brown, dean
of the Graduate School at North
Carolina College, will serve as
Constultant to the Graduate In
stitute of Education at Washing
ton University, St. Louis, Mo.,
February 27-28. ,
A specialist in evaluation.
Dean Brown will assist with the
development arid validation of
techniques for identifying stu
dents of high academic potential
whose scores on standardized
tests are depressed as a result of
living fh a rulturally disndvant-
See CONSUIT.ANT 6A
Mrs. A. Kennedy
Appointed To
Important Post
Governor Terry Sanford today
appointed Mrs. Annie Brown
Kennedy, Winston-Salem atty.,
to the Commission on the Status
of Women.
Mrs. Kennedy, who will serve
an iPdefi»iite term, was bom
October 13, 1924 in Atlanta, the
daughter of Mancy and Mary
(Louis Brown. She attended pub
lic schools in Atlanta and earned
her undergraduate degree at
Spelman College in 1945. She
earned her law degree at How
ard University in 1951.
Mrs. Kennedy is a member of
the Board of the Forsyth Tuber-
c'-iicsis Assn., and a member of
the Forsyth County Bar Assn.
She Is married to Harold L.
Kennedy and they are the par-
c ’ts of three sons.
Albany Leader
To Be Tried
For Perjury
ALBANY, Georgia — Mrs.
Elza (Goldie) Jackson will go
on trial February 24, in Macon.
Georgia in the U. S. District
Court of Alleged perjury char
ges.
See rERJURV 8A
Tor the civil n*{Kis 5TT1 “givps
us great liope that the bill will
1)0 pa.s.si'd by the St-nnte. as well,"
i[Roy VY'ilkin.s NA.^iCP e.xccutive
■secretary rbairinarr of the
Leadership ('Snfcrcnce on Civil
Ri'Khts. siiid following the final
House actiorr.
“We Ivave confidence," the
civil rights leaders added, “in
our Senators and believe they,
too, will answer with appropri
ate action the cry of millions of
Americans for simple justice.”
The better than two to one
vote in the House of Representa
tives came on Feb. 10, ten days
after the most comprehensive
civil rights bill ever submitted
to Congress was received from
the Rules Committee. The 11-
part bill covers a wide range ol
civil rights objectives., '
,;10d Antendmenfs RbjacteA
A total of 140 Smendments Irt
the* bill was offert'd during de
bate. The coalition of northerrt
Diftnocrats and Republicans,)
standing firm, turned back ‘103
amendments designed to alter the
substance of the bill. Thirty-.sev
on minor revisi,ons, includiing
one banning .sex discritnination i
in employment, were either ad-j
opted or accepted without con-|
test by the Judiciary Committee:
which steered the measure
through the House with bi-part
isan support. A majority of each
party voted for the broad mea-
See KICHTS BILL fiA
Durham's social, business and
professional circles were brought
fjogelher here recently at the
home ot Mr. and Mrs. A. T.
Spaulding who were Hosts at
reception, honoring the First Sec
retary of the Indian Embassy.!
A. K. Ray and his wife. Mr.
Hay was in Durham to deliver
an address at White Rock Bap
tist Church as Good Will Day
speaker. More than 100 persons,
attended the affair which was
given following the address. The
above photo, taken during the I
reception, shows a group of the
guests, the honorees, host and
hostess. They are; Mr. Ray (heat
ed, third from left), Mrs. Ray
(sealed, second from left), A. X*
Spaulding (seated, left) and Mrs.
Spaulding, (seated, right.) Shown
standing, from left: Dr. and Mrs.
C. D. WatJs, Aaron Spaulding,
Dr. Helen G. Edmonds, the Ray'*
nine year old son, Mr. and Mra.
J. W. Goodloe aiii Mr. an} Mrs,
R. Taylor Cole.
Whiteiitriister Pastors. ,!
Former Negro Church
March 23 New
Trial Date Set
Evers Slayer
JACKSON, Miss. — The date
for a retrial of arch-scgregation
ist Byron De La Beckwith for
the ambushislaying of NAACP
leader ‘Medgar 'W. Evers will be
set at a heating March 23.
Circuit Judge Leorr Hendrick |
made that announcement on Feb. i
7 aftei' he declared a mistrial
when the all-white jury failed to'
bring in a decision following
11 hours of deliberations. The
panel, which was reported to be |
split 7-5 for acquittal, said it was;
hopelessly deadlocked. '
Beckwith's attorneys said they
would file a petition with Judge
Hendrick asking that the 43 year
old Greenwood fertilizer sales-,
man be released on bail pending
the new triial. i
Mass Arrests Continue in Chape!
Hill Racial Discrimination Crisis
CHAPEL HILL — Police ar- j the group adhered to a non
rested over 90 persons last week-, violent oath which all had re
end in desegregation demonstra-l peated at thfe start of the demoiT-
tions here led by the NAACP, j stration.
CORE, SNCC, the Southern |
Conference Educational Fund
and the Student Peace Urrion.
The demonstrations, which in
cluded marches and “lie-ins,"
tied up four major highways and
a bu.sy intersection. Segregated
restaurants and other establish-
merrts were blocked by demon
strators who were carted off by
arresting police.
Forty highway patrolmen were
sent by Gov. Terry Sanford to
assist city police and Orange
County sheriffs in restoring
order. At one point the demon
strators were attacked by white
spectators who were finally halt
ed by police.
In one spot on the highway
traffic was tied up for 20 minu
tes as demonstrators formed a
human chain anrd sat down in
the road. Despite provocation.
Sunday “Unsiung Heroes Day” at St. Joseph’s
Sunday, February 23, will be [ qua of Chicago. Music will be
known as “Unsung Heroes Day,” j furnished by the Senior Choir,
at St. Joseph’s AM^E Church Mrs. Shirley Jones directing and
honoring the Public School Tea- j Mrs! Minnie W. Gilmer at the
chors of the ejty. The guest console. The Mirristcr, Rrv, Mel-
jXiv,:ikor uill Lc Rw\. Cuil I'l . Jet ij'l. JO,,!-:!!! (i.'.
Gilliam Named
Agency Sect'y
By N. C. Mutual
W. M. GiUiiwn, Agency Ad
ministrative A.ssistanl. North Ca
rolina Mutual Life Insurance
Company was promoted to the
prosition of Agency Secretary
and made a meniijcr of the offi
cial staff of the Company. This
announcement was made by A,
T. Spaulding, president.
Gilliam was appointed an agent
for the Company on April 9.
1928 on the Spartanburg, South
Carolina district. Two years
later, he was promoted to the
position of Assistant Manager on
the Spartanburg Di.strict. In
July of 1963, he was transferred
to the Savannah. Georgia di
strict as an Assistant Manager.
In August, 1938. he was transfer
red to the Durham district to I
serve in the same capacity. In j
1940, Gilliam joined the Agency!
Director’s Staff as Special Agent.!
In 1944 he was promoted to j
Agency Supervisor and then Re-1
gional Supervisor in 1951. |
In 1957,'Gilliam was promot-1
ed to the position of A.ssis'ant to j
the Agency Direcor. Four years
later he was named Agency Ad-;
ministratK'e A.'Sirt-'nt. |
Gilliam is a grasuate of Living
stone College. He>is also a gradil- I
ate of the 1956 National In-1
surance Association School in |
Agerrcy Managements. He serves I
as Vice President of the General
Alumni Association and Treasur-1
er of the local Chapter of thej
Alumni Association of Living- ■
stone College, has served as a'
deleiialc to the General Con-j
bee UiLLLUl fij. i
ASHEVILLE — The Rev.
William Shaw Jones, a native of
.Mi.ssissippi, became the first
white pastor .of the previously
all-Negro Calvary United Pres
byterian Church here last week.
The church, with a mertibership
of 140, is now integrated.
Rov, Jones will hold his first
service Sunday. He explained
that he was choserr by the pulpit
cDMunittee “not because! they
were looking for a white pastor,
but .((imply because they weri
looking for a pastor.”
Accordihg Id, Ri6v. Jones, th4
Department bf ttii tll'teb Church
in the Board Of Natidnai Mis
sions in the United Presbyterian
Church, one of the bodies Which
suggests pastorial caadidates,
makes no racial distinctions.
He stated that, "several names
including mine, were sent to the
pulpit committee. When I first
came here last November, 1 ask
ed the committee why they
were considering a white pastor,
and they said they were only
seeking a pastor. For my part,
1 was only seeking a congrega
tion.”
Hev. Jones, a native of Gren.
ada, Mississippi, and the son olt
a Presbyterian minister,' further
stated that, "1 have always been
interestod in the South, I wanted
to rctiirn to this part of the
country to deal with things that
Christian faith must deal with.’*
He studied at Oklahoma State
University, the American Uni
versity of Beirut in Lebanon and
McCormick Theological Semin
ary in Chicago. He was ordained
in 1960.
Hillside Pupil
Receives Art
Gallery Award
Ronald Stephens Watkins, a
member of the Jurrior Class at
Hillside High School was award
ed one of the six Book Awards
given by the Weathersp.x>n Art
Gallary of Womah’s College,
Greensboro.
His entry “Day. Dreamer,” a
watercoloc painting depicting one
of his classmates wai anicAg the
125 gold key winrier« in t h'e
Scholastic Art Xwardji l^hi^it
held at Woman’s College Ift
connection with the WFMY-TV
Station, Channel 2 spqauorsht^.
There were 3600 etftries to tMe
exhibit, 125 of theae wer» awrd>
ed the Scholastic .Art
Gold Key. aix were tbe
WcaiUcropoon ,\rt QaUerji.
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