Mann Film Laboratories 7^0 Chatham Rd. MISS. ADOPTS TEN ANTI RIGHTS BILLS igMmtnTiigaiTiBSi WJRHAM, N. C, 27702, SATURUAY, JUNE 13; 1964 VOLUME 41 — No. 23 Discrimination Charged in Legion Ranks PRICt i is' Cent* Action Sought By NAACP On Hospital Bias Ruling HONORED AT NCC—Mrs. Daisy Smith, l*ft, and Mrs. Frances M. Kagleson, third from lift, ar3 •hown receiving congratulations •f North Carolina College facul- fy membars at a rccopiion in thsir honor on the occasion of their retircmnt. Mrs. Eaglcson, who haf held many positions at NCC during 43 years of service, includln{i that of registrar since 1928, will rotire at the end of the Sum mer session. Mrs. Smith, who has been on the staff of the men's dormitories since 1946, rclii::d June 1, Also in the receiving line: John L. Stewart, deen ef men. Offering congratulations are Dr. Josi^ph P. McKeipin, di rector of the NCC Bureau of Educational Research, and Dr. Charles A. Ray, chairman of ths college's Depaitmisnt of English. Pe^mise Fund Meceives Half Million Dollar Gift Racial Conflict Can Be Converted To High Level of Opportunity Of Appeals Court Decree Pressed NEW YORK — NAACP un its throughout the country arc currently mapping plans to se cure implementation of a U. S. Appeals Court decision banning racial discrimination in federal- ATUANTA, GA., — “Racial, conflict," says Mayor Stan 11,1 Brookshire of Charlotte, “can be: converted to an^opportiinity o(' raising the love! of citizenship j and building better cornmuni-; ties.” Charlotte is one of two south- ^ ern cities reported on today by I the Southern Regional Council, In the first of a scries of reports descriptive of southern citic: j that in rcccnt months have con fronted reali.stically liieir ra-; cial problems and have taken constructive action to resolve them. The other report released to day deals with Louisvilk' (Ky.). Subsequent reports in the serie:; vvill cover Memphis ('i'cnn), Brunswick (Ga.), and oiu; otlier Deep South city. The Louisville anti Cliarlotlo studies were by Benjamin Mti.se and Pat Watters, respectively, both of whom are senior hIhVI members of the Southern lie- gional Council. In Louisville, Muse observes, “race prejudice may bo said to be contained. II is vicvveii by the community leadership as an evil to be combatted, and its is being combatted steadily and with increasing effectiveness .. Piscrimination on account ol race is frowned upon in princi ple—though still far from being See CONFLICT, 4A Rochester CORE Workers Undertake Slum Clean-up ROCHESTKR, N. Y..—Decid- ^lg to take the long-overdue jots of slum cleanup into its own hands, Rochester CORE has taken to the streets on the past tew Saturday mornings armed with rakes, brooms, shovels and boxes. The tools were donated by various hardware stores. The manpower was supplied by the CORE group and aug mented by residents of the peighorhoods involved. More than 100 residents pitched in for the first cleanup, which covered about 60 buildings and yards along Hand Street. “Some of the cans and gar- ^ See CLIANUP, 4A NEW YORK N. nouncement of an anonymous gift of one half million dollars the Tj^hanced hospitaTs' and other health centers. The decision by the U. S. four- til Circuit Court ot Appeals, which the Supreme Court has refused to review, bans .segre gating or excluding Negroes in hospitals receiving funds under the Hill-Burton Act and re quires these hospitals to give largest single contribution' st^ff privileges to Negro doctors in... £ivU rifiiiJ;0.>^-hiBtory—training to nurses. made last week by Jack Green-1 ® directive to NAACP un- berg, director-counsel of the | Gloster B. Current, director NAACP Legal Defense Fund DR. TOTTON Supreme Court Ufiseffllabaina Ban on NAACP WASHINGTON — In a unani mous decision the U. S. Supreme Court upset an injunction issued by the State of Alabama which has successfully prevented the N'AACP from conducting its acti- vitlps In that state for the past eight years. In its fourth decision concern ing the .state ban the Court held on June 1 that Alabama had no ccnstitutional basis for excluding the Association. The Court further st.atrd that is was prepared to take additional action if the Alabama courts did not comply promptly with its rulinR. ., I NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins hailed the decision, stat in" that “all of us at (NAACP) headquarters are pleased that at Ion" last the unfair barring of our Association from Alabama in 1956 has been reversed. "At the time, Alabama declared its action was to preserve racial peace in the state. Since that time, more turbulence has result ed than during the period 'Afhen th" NAACP was operating,” he said. In upholding the legality of NAACP activities, the Supreme Co’irt ohose to remand the case to the Alabama Supreme Court “for further proceedings not in- consi.stent with this opinion..” Such proceedings. Justice John Marshall Harlan, who wrote the opinion, said should include a “prompt" order wiping out the in junction against the Association and allowing it to qualify for business in Alabama. Ju.st ice Harlan concluded, “sliould we unhappily be mistaken in our belief that the Supreme Court of Alabama will promptly implement this disposition, leave is given to the Association to ap ply to this Court for further ap propriate relief.” , I See INJUNCTION, 4A Founded by the NAACP, but now separate and apart, the Le gal Defense Fund serves at the legal arm of the entire civil rights movement. Its attorneys repre.^cnt the Association, CORE 8CLC, SNCC and others seeking civil rights. of branches, outlined steps which the NAACP should lake to insure that the court’s ruling is followed, including possible litigation in areas where iiospi- tals refuse to comply with the edictv ' iOvef 200 medical centers are currently receiving' Federal as sistance tinder the Hill-Burlon Mr. Greenberg said the gilt' program. In addition to hoSpi- was made in anticipation that' tals, many diagnostic and treai- “tens of thousands, who will.ment centers, rehabilitation faci- presumably be arrested in fu- lities, public health centers and ture noii-violcnt demonstrations,! state health laboratories arc will need legal representation.” I covered by the program. Dr. Ezra lotton, NCC Chemist, Given Honor COLLEGE BOARD ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING MASSIE’S DECISIONS The Board of Trustees of North Qarolina College, meeting on June 4, heard representatives from faculty and alumni groups, especially concerning action with reference to Deans Brown and Kyle and the relationships of the President and some groups of the faculty. The Board of Trustees adopted th following statement; “The Board deplores the public! Stanford use of the expression 'lack of | sponsorsiiip coopeifation’ generally offered man, as an explanation for the ro- Dr, Totton is a member ot the moval of Doctors Brown and ; American Chemical Society and Kyle as Deans. In fact, the word , i,s listed in “The American Men See BOARD, 4A J S"e HONOR, 4A Dr Ezra L. Totton, chairman of the Department ot Chemistry at North Carolina College pt Durham, was recently elected to membership in the Ameri can Society of Biological Chem ists, Dr. Totton, who received the doctorate in chemistry from the University of Wisconsin, wArk- ing under Dr. H. A. Lardy and Dr, S, N. McElvan, for the past fifteen years has been professor of chemistry and chairman of tiie Department of Chemistry at NCC. Ill 19.'59, he was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Post-doctorate follow- jicre ship and studied for a year ;'t University under the of Dr. R. II, East- Miss B. Snipes Completes Study In California SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. — | Miss Bcttye Snipes, daughter of Samuel Snipes of 43-C Rideway Road in Durham, has just com pleted a year’s work under a gFant to study Spanish in the academic-year Foreign Language Institute at San Francisco State College.. Miss Snipes is one of twenty-four elementary and se condary school teaciicrs from all parts of the United States se lected to receive this grant. At the Foreign Language In stitute, Miss Snipes has been studying the moat modern methods of foreign language in struction. She has been taking courscs in audio-lingual method ology and linguistics, and site has been participating in area studies of the Spahish-.speaking countries, working directly witli instrtictors and conversation a.s- si'stants from Ajfexico, Guantema- Ja, Venezuelai' other Latui American: i^uhti'ieil. * I Miss SiQtxs h a ifriiduate ol Hillside High Schl>oI iti Durham and North Carolina College at Durhatn. From 1961 to 1963, she taught Spanish at Dudley High School In Greensboro. ^ Miss snipes has completed thirty graduate semester hours credit in Intensive Spanish coursework at the Foreign Lan guage Institute. She plans to re main in California to teacM Spanish in a junior high school In a letter-statement to fel low legionnaries released re cently by Benjamin F. Smith. Commander, Weaver-McLean Post 17.'}, and I, R. Hol- me.s. Post Adjutant, it was re vealed that the post will not par ticipate in the 1964 annual c75Tl- vention of the American Legion, Department of North Carolina j set for the JackTar Hotel, June j 18-20, The letter, which is in har- I mony with resolutions protest- ! ing segregation in the Legion ; adopted earlier by the Eastern and the Western Areas of Divi sion six follows: ‘This letter "is an attempt to explain the position of the Wea ver-McLean Post on the integra tion of the 1964 Annual Con vention of the American'Legion, Department of North Carolina, “You will recall that the Charlotte Annual Convention of 1963 approved, by unanimous vote, a resolution calling for immediate integration of Divi sion Six with all phases of the Di'partmcni. Since the Annual Convention, the Eastern Area adopted a resolution calling for immediate integration of Divi sion Six with all areas of the Departi^ient, the Western Area reaffirmed and endorsed the re solution adopte by the Eastern Area, “In view of the declared in- tentions of your delegates as sembled in the Annual Convei’- tion and in Area meetings, tht Weaver-McLean Post has voted not to take any part in the 19- 64 Annual Convention. This posl tion is undergirded by the fact that the current proposal for amendment to the Constitution of the American Legion repre sent a step backward. The pro posals al.so indicate that the lDe> partment is not willing to take the lead in seeing that member* of Division Six are accorded the' same rights and privileges cipals and administrators and | members of Division 37 teachers. The administrators^ through Five. We feel that received $200 scholarships and] most effective way to call those going to teachers are val-! backward .steps ALLEN Jesse L. Allen Wins Scholarship For Duke Study Je.sse L. Allen, Hillside\iii- structor in Busine.ss Education, is one of forty-two high sciiool and elementary .school teacher.s who are winners of sciiolar.shipr for summer study at Duke Uni versity, on a nationwide compe tition, Dr, Ci)IaH'b.’Pei'r>', sum mer session director has an nounced, ' Recipients include five prin- ucd at $150 each. Recipients were selected primarily on Tne basis of their teaching and aca demic experience. The summer scholarship pro gram IS intended to encourage See ALLEN, 4A MRS. MILLS RENWICK RIDDICK UNDERWOOD Four North Carolina College Faculty Members Are Grant Recipients for institute Studies Four North Carolina College faculty members are, recipients of grants to attend summer in stitutes in their re*pective teach ing fields. They are Hertnan H. Rid dick, biology, who will study at the University of North Caro lina at Greensboro; Mrs. Edna Mills, English, who will attend Indiana Univeriity; Chavis L Renwick, mathematics, who will Attend the University ot Wis consin; and Gerald Underwood, history, attending the tarnegic Institute of Technology, Pitts burgh, Pa. Beginning in June, all institu tes will be in session for eight weeks except the history insti tute, which is scheduled for se ven weeks. Supported by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Rookefeller Foundation, the institutes, which are Deep Southern State Attempts To Curtail Civil Rights Activity Seventy-one U.S. Senators Vote For Cloture JACKSON, MISS. — The Mis sissippi Legislature, in an effort to weaken the drive tor racial justice, introduced 37 bills of an anti-civil rights nature at its current session, and had passed 10 into law by June 2. Several other bills which have passed one or both houses are expected to become Ifjw before the legislature adjourns late this month or early in July. The sweeping legislation, which cover everything from re stricting private citizens from moving lawfully through a city's streets, to a $50,000 appropria tion to the State Sovereignty Commission to fight desegrega- WASHINGTON — Sovcnty- five days of Southern fiiibus ter against the Civil Vlishts bill came to an end Wednesday as the Senate voted 71-29 for cloture, or limitation of debate, to clear the way for the bill to be passed. The rarely-invoked clo'urr tion was apparently spurred by (measure — used only five tiinef for teachers from predominantly Negro colleges, will each en roll 50 persons. Emphasis in each program will be on the re organization and improvement of courses being offered by fhe] teachers in their respective col-1 leges ‘ The grants include remission of tuition ahd fees, travel allow ances, and cash stipends of $105 per week. successful civil rights work the state in recent months, and further plans for “freedom schools” set for this summer. Among bills signed into law were the following: Anti-leaf- leting law: prohibits the distri bution of leaflets calling for economic boycotts. Anti-picketing law: prohibit ing picketing public buildings. Bill to “restrain movements of individuals under certain cir cumstances:” This bill would allow police to restrict freedom yjf movement of individuhls and BILLaj in the last 47 years — was vot ed for by 44 Democrats and 2-' Republicans. Among Rppubii cans voting against cloture was Arizona Senator Barry Gold water, a top-contender for tPie GOP presidential nominatioTi The vote paved the way for final action, possibly within two weeks, on the bill, and limits each senator to only one more hour of debate Some 550 amendments have been proposed for the house- approved bill and the Senate will now act on some of tnese bt.. cLWIUKb,, is to refuse to assemble in a segregated convention. “The City of Durham Is an integrated city. The Fathers do See LEGIONNAIRES, 4A National Publications Focus Academic Spotlight On NCC North Carolina College was spotlighted recently by two na tional publications which singl ed out the institution's gradu ates in articles. The New York Times, in its Education Section Sunday, June 7, treated the job outlook for 1964 college graduates, empha sizing increased opportunities for Negroes. NCC was one of three predominantly Negro institutions included in an ana lysis of placement trends. The article quoted William P. Malone, NCC placement direc tor, who commented on results of visits by about 300 recruiters from government and industry to the Durham campus during the school year. The June 15 issue of News week has a three-page feature (its entire Education section) on ‘ The Class of 1984.” NCC News Bureau director H. W. Alexander indicated that the article focuses on twelve outstanding young college grad uates, among them James Robin son, who received the A B. de gree from NCC May 31. A native of Scotland Neck, N. C. Robinson, 25, an ex-GI was a student leader and gradu ated Summa cum laude froip |he institution. He will study law next year the Uni'f-rjltv r.f Mftia i