Mann Film'Laboratories 7^ Chaj^ham Rd. Wlnston-Sal^n, H. o’. ., 7/20/Co»p„ MISSISSIPPI TACTICS USED IN WAIiliEN COUNTY TO DISCOURAGE NEGRO REGISTRATION shesr* -m: ■ 9negm^ # Outside View of Registration quarters of Smith Creek precinct Prospective Neg*^ Registrants (tr»d in lina from 9:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m. attempt to register. ENFIELD — The Halifax Vytcr Movement has requested j the appointment of a Negro to I UL one of tlic,.,vacancies crcat- j •d . by the resignation of two! V{9t«r regi-strars last weelt in ^l^ifax County, the scene of I concentrated Negro registration i activity. . However, no Negro has, been appointed and County | Board Chairman Robert Shields I has said, “1 don’t believe the law specifies that one (a Negro) i has to be appointed.”. , Hundreds of Kegroes, who outnumber whites .32,000 to 26- 000 in the county,, hayc turned out during the past two week ends to register for the May Primary. , The Halifax Voter movement j has charged that registrars used a “deliberate slowdown” in registering Negroes, and peti tioned for a federal restraining order. U. S. District Judge, John D. Lari(ins issued the order, but Negro leaders said the tactics continued and therefore notifi ed the U. S. Department of Jus- I tice. The Justice Department im mediately dispatched FBI agents to the Halifax scene to conduct an investigation of charges brought by, Negroes £igainst Hali fax County registrars. Agents met Monday .with members of the county board of elections and attorneys and requested assistance in the in vestigation. The FBI probe resulted frofii a complaint sent to the Depart ment of Justice ri’ceiitly i)y A. C. Cofiold of Weldon, Chairman of the Halifax Voter'Movemonl which it pu.ihing Negro regi- i stration. Attorney T. Clayton talks with registrar Maitlrr Hayes of Smith Creek Pieci-Tct in Warren County. • V ' Julius Banzet of Warrenton. tiip' Justice Department a wlrc‘ the piillini* placcs £or rcKi.-itrnnlLi , Attorney for the county hoiird , tlcnyiiif; the voracity of Cofickl's all Ihi.-; wi'ck. I of cU'ctions, .said tiie FBI agents | cluirges and that he would wel- Accoi-dinK to 1 re.spresented the Civil Rights, come an investigation. ^ Division of J.he Department of | The ordei Justice. Judge John BiUi/cl. 1''B[ igcnts lla've reqiiesti'd live issued by Fcdcrnl > names of persons who have r('- D. Larkins meant, gislered and the names of some Approximately two days after I in effect, that (he Halifax rc- who have been re,iatlici. Ap- Cofield niaile his complaint, gistrars are required to keep parently they will be Uogert Shields, cluiirnian^of (lie, llieir ref^istraUon books open nt Cd during the investigalioii. i county board of elections sent , - ■ | ' - Oak Grove Church Hearing Set Here For Thursday May 21 The hearing for the Oak TIrove Free Will Baptist CTiurcll case has been set for Thursday, May 21 in the Durham County Recorders Court instead of May 24 as was announced in last week’s issue of the Carolina Times it was revealed here this week. The case grow out of a temporary restraining order is sued by Superior Court Judge Raymond B. Mallard which pre vents Rev. Z. D. Harris, pa.stor of the church from occupying its pulpit. The church is located ■* hetA At 801 Colfait Stn;et and the restraining order was sign ed by several officers of the church. Although the temporary order only restrains Rev. Harris from occupying the pulpit of the church for the time being, the officer.? are seeking a perman ent order from the court which will restrain the pastor. Rev. jyTWiTTRUTM~UNSRtptED^ VOLUME 41—No. 19 DURHAM^.N. C.. 27702, SAT URDAY, MAY 16, 196 i PRICE: 15 Cents NAACP To Observe Year of School Decisio Judge Higginbotham to Deliver NCC Comniencement Address .aboTC photo ihows the jam- tist Church* locatlB^ at 801 Coij church, the congregation was med packed W. D. Hill Hecrea-lfax Street. Became Ihe paafor.j forced lo employ the use of the if»n Center here last Sunday the Rev. Z. D. Harris, had beeni Recreation Center in which to laming which was the scene of barred from (he pulpH by a| hold services. Hearing in the DURHAM, — North Carolina the Federal Trade Commission. College President Samuel P.' thus becolning the first Negro Massie announced recently that j to be a member at the eoinjnis--, Harris, from occupying both thci college’s 39th annual eotn-j.sion level of any. federal regu-^ pulpit and the parsonage. The; Sunday, May i latory Bgertcy and'the youngest latter' was ’built ■ under the Sir will' feature iin address by r pe'rsori^ cviTf appointed to tiie leadership of Rev. I Harris. i A. Leoh HigRinbotham, judge FTC. , . i Services for the congregation! of the U. S. District Court for Among his'awards is one de- last Sunday were held at theithe Eastern District of Penn- .signaling him one of Hhe ten W. D, Hill Recreation Center Uvlvania. - ' most outstanding young men in el«yen o'clock worship sery-1 court order taken out by • group matter has been set for Thurs- Fayetteville Street with ani Tiie 36-year old judge Hig-i America by- the U. S. Junior :i6* of the Oak Grove Will Bap-1 of disgruntled officers of thej day. May 21. Ushers To Open Home For Unwed Mothers Sunday June 28 has been set for the formal opening of the home for unwed mothers to be operated in connection with the Ushers Home, located at Frank- Unton, it was annouuced here this week by L. E. Austm, pre sident of the Interdenomination al Usher Association of North (jarolina. The home for unwed mothers, will cater primarily to Negro girls and women and will fill a long felt need for such a faci lity, as there is not known to be «ucH an institution south of Washington. The capacity in the begitining will be limited to a half dozen inmates but as fast financial conditions will per mit it is hoped that the capa city will be soon boosted to tU\y persons or even a larger number. The home will be operated un- ,dcr .the direct supervision of Mrs, Roxie Small, former owner and operator of a home for elderly people in Chatham Coun ty. Mrs. Small will occupy a •bbuSe on the premises of the Ushers Home, which is located '>n Highway One, just two miles *ut of Franklinton. The house the' will occupy has recently ahdergone extensive renova tion* and she will hold the posi tion of superintendent of the in- ■tftution. ^ See USHIRS page 4A St. Augustine's Commencement Scheduled for Monday, May 25 RALEIGH — Saint Augus tine's College will observe Com mencement week Friday, May 22 through 25. The calendar of events will in clude such noted personalities as EMward L. Cushman, Vice- president, director and memtier of the Committee of American Motors Corporation, who will deliver the Commencement ad dress May 25, af 10:30 a.m. in the Emery Health and Fine Arts Center. Cushman became a corpora tion executive at 40 in a new aspect of a career in unemploy ment compensation, a univer sity professor, government offi cial, industrial arbitrator, ad ministrator and management consultant. He was born in Bos ton and majored in labor econo mics at thq University of Michi* gqn. Upon graduation in 1937, Cushman became a resaarch economist for the Michigan Un employment Conipensafion Com mission. In he was named director of the Civil Service Department of the Michigan Unemploynxent Compensatioi) Commission and also assistant to the state director of the Of-! ficc of Production Management, the War Production Board, the United States Employment Ser vice and the War Manpower Commission. He became Michi gan Director of the WMC and the U.S. Employment Service in 1&43. The Reverend Theodore H. Gibson will keynote the Baca- laureate Service Sunday, May 24 at 5 p.m. in the College Cha- j pel. A native of Miami, Florida, | Father Gibson was graduated I from Saint Augustine’s College! and the Bishop Payne Divinity School, now a part of the Vir ginia Theological Seminary. An active participant In civic and social affairs of his com munity, Father Gibson led a ma jor slum clearance program thirteen years ago, and as a re sult the Coconut Grove com munity received sewerage dis posal, running water and re moval of old houses. He was in strumental in the passing of a city ordinance requiring water See ST. AUG. Page 4A overflow crowd, including Spc HARRIS page 2A Winchester to Jjost 41st Meet Of Virginia Elks WINCHESTER, Va. —The Vir £!inia State As.sociation of Elks, IBI’OE of W. will start its Annual Convention Saturday, May Hi, in Winchester, Virginia to continue through Wednesday, May 20, More than one thousand (1,000) brother and daughter Elks are expccted in the Apple Capital of the World for this annual affair. Oemocritic v. Republican Debate One of the more interestin'; highlights ‘#ill be the debate be tween David M, Grant, Attorney of St. Louis, Missouri, Democrat, v. Grant Reynolds, Attorney of New York, Ilcpublican. The program 'vill take place at the Douglas School on North Kent Street, Mon day, May 18, at 2:30 p.m,, and vill be centered around the 1964 presidential campaign. It is ex pccted that the emphasis will be placed on what the respective maj- '■r political parties will offer the Negro voter. Grant is a leading Missouri Democrat and presently thcj g'fibotham, a graduate of An-; Chamber of Commerce tioch College and Yale Universi-| The Commencement schedule, — I ty Law School, bocame the which begins Saturday with a youngest person to be appoint-1 meeting of the college’s Nation- led a federal district judge in al Alumni Association at 10 fim- ! 30 years when he was sv/orn in will include also the commence- in 1964. I ment play Saturday evening al A former assistant district 8:15 in the B. N. Duke audito- attorney in Philadelphia, Pa., rium. and special deputy attorney general for the Commonwealth of Penn.sylvania, he was nomi nated in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy for a seven- Sunday's activities will begin with the annual Dean of Wo men's breakfast for graduates and their parents, scheduled this year for 9:30 a. ni. in the year term as a commissioner for! college cafeteria. CIVIL RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS HIGGINBOTHAM Coniinenceinent exercises, which begin al 3 p. in.. will bi’ hold for tlie first lime in the college's history on the lawn facing thi; college's Janies K. Shepard Memorial Library, Tlio spacious area, whicli will have as a platform backdrop the im pressive columns and front ol the .stalely building, will aceoni- See NCC pii.^e 4.\ Favor Selective Buying Asa T. Spaulding Named to UNC Business Adm'n Honor Society North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company, has just been elected to lifetime membership in the University of North Caro lina School of Business Admini stration chapter of Beta Gamma is Director of Legislative Research [ Sigma scholastic honor society for the St. Louis Board of Alder men. which Is the governing coun cil for the city of St. Louis. Rey nolds is counsel to William E. Miller, Chairman of the.Republi can National Committee, a form er candidate for Congress from Harlem, and one of America's top speakers and debaters. Hobson R. Reynolds, Grand Ex alted Ruler of the Elks, Joseph F. Simmons, Grond Secretary and See ELKS i'age 4;’. T, Spaulding, President oil “E^ch year the society chooses ‘that businessman who most nearly embodies the principles upon which our society was founded’ and invites him to life time membarship. It has been custom for the initiate to make the address at the banquet fol lowing the initiation: we look In a follow-up letter Doan Mau rice W. Lee of the School of Business Administration said: “This is the highest honor that forward to hearing your re marks.” can be extended to a business man Beta Gamma Sigma is the honorary fraternity in ed you to membership as the honorary initiate for 1964 In notifying Mr. Spaulding of his election as honorary initiate for 1964, Dr. Richard I. Levin, Associate Professor of Manage ment ahd faculty President of Beta Gamma Sigma, of the School of Business Administra tion, wrote as follows: “The members of the Univer sity of North Carolina Chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, national Scholastic honor society in Busl- -I'.’ss A?lmin*;fration, lisv, sle-,,- PETERSBURG, VA. — A joint committee of civil rights organizations in the Petersburg area unanimously endorsed an economic withdrawl in down town Petersburg, effective Sun day (May 10)' for an indefinite period. The resolution was adopted at a mass meeting at Mt. Olivel Baptist Church this week. A joint statement was issued by NAACP Chapter President Dr, L C. Jolmson, David E. Gun ] ter, Petersburg Improvement; Association president. Dr. C. M.| Colson, Eltrick Community As sociation president, Bristol Rush, NAACP Youth Chapter presi dent, and youth leader Roland Sherrod, which indicated that the movement was not directed at any merchant, but at the “system” which leaves practi cally all public accomodations In Petersburg still segregated. In addition to the economic i.- NEW YORK — NAACP bran ches throughout the country will bo participating in a vari ety of events marking (ho lOtii anniversary of tiic 19.'54 Sup reme Court decision outlawing segregation in the public schools, Sunday. May 17. thief among these will be the NAACP ' Freedom Spectacular" closed-circuit television siiow on May 14 whicli will be soon in 46 cjlies across tlie nation. Commenting on the annliver- .■Jiiry of the Higii Court edict, NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins noted that 10 year.^ later ‘'well over 90 per cent of Negro children in southern and border states still attend all-Ne gro schools. Meanwhile, cle facto school segregation in non- southern areas has increased. 'Clearly, the deci.sion has not been .self-fulfilling of its great promise," he said. 'Nevertheless,” Mr. Wilkins continued "the decision has been of pivotal iniporlance in the developing civil rights cri sis. It was the first sweeping af- Federal governnieHt of the m- lierent illegality of compulsory segregation. firination by a branch of the "Its impact has been extended far beyond the schoolhouse — to public accommodations, to re creational and health faciUtici, to transportation, lo housing, and to voting. It stimulated the upsurge of Negro militancy of the l9GOs, It awakened the con science of white America to the injustice of segregation. And it has provided a firm constitu tional basis for the continulnB and accelerated struggle to rid the nation of the cancer of ra. cism.” More than 100 branche^f the Association will observe the an niversary through churches and organized religious groups on ‘Freedom Sunday,” May 17. The day's programs will focus on the current stateus of pub lic school education for Negroes in both the South and North community reaction to“tlie civil bill currently being debated in the Senate and local promotion of Negro voter registratiori drives. Commemorative services, pub lic mass meetings and prayer marches will be hold in such places as Denver, Colo.; Tren ton, N. J.; Biloxi, Miss.; Au.xtin. Tex.; Hartford, Conn.; Pamit.u Ui fcChOOL

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