Mann Film Laboratories 7U0 Chatham M. Winston-Salem, N. C. — 7/20/Corap. 7'INSTON SUim N C 1 VOLUME 41 — No. 29 DURHA^^, N. C. 27702 SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1964 RETURN REQUESTED Dr. H. Edmonds Participates In N. Y. CR Seminar ACCORDING TO REPORTS BOOSTING NCC—James H. Knight, c«nt*r, B counsslor at North Car olina College explains features oi the college’s program to a group of tiigh school students attending the institution's second annual counseling clinic Friday. From left: Alice jJones and Mar gie Riley, Little River High, Ba hama; and Carolyn McKoy and Walter McLean, E. E. Smith Senior High, Fayetteville. Approximately 150 students at tended the one-day clinio. Mutilated Bodies Spur Federal Probe Request Miss. Field Sec. Seeks Help From CI>ARKiSDALE, MISS. — The discovery of two more brutally murdered and mutilat- thi* terror-ridden stronghold of racists has prompted new calls for federal investigations by the National Association for the Ad vancement of Colored People. Dr. Aaron E. Henry, Mississi ppi State NAACP president, Tuesday, July 14, called upon Attorney General Kennedy to find out who Icilled Charles Moore, 20, and Henry Decs, 21, and cut their bodies in two. The lower halves of both bodies were lound in the Old River swamo near Tallulah, La., Sunday enO Monday July 12 and 13. ^he mutilated bodies were discovered during the continu- in* search for Michael Schwer- ner, 24, and Andrew Goodman. 20,, both of New York, and James Chaney, 22, of Meridian, Miss., who disappeared near Philadelphia, Miss., last June 22. In another move, in Jackson Charles Evers, NAACP fioUI secretary, sent a letter to Missi ssippi Governor Paul Johnson, Monday, July 13, requesting j that he call upon the state law- I makers to enact special legi.sla- ' tion to guarantee the safety of | Mississippi Negro cltizcn.s. Mr. j Evets’ letter also asked for ar ! early meeting with the State 1 Executive to discuss the rising | tide of anti-Negro violence. I Since his brother was shot in I the back by a sniper outside of ^ his home in Jackson, June 12, i 1963, Mr. Evers said 14 Negroes have disappeared, been slain, or have died mysteriously in rural I Mississippi. j ■Dr. Henry said tliis fate *’“’j befallen nine Negroes in the Delta in the pa.st seven mon?To) and in none of the cases have arrests been made. ‘‘Most of these murders were committed by local police offi cers," Mr. Evers asserted. AT/o pointing to the fact that no ar rest has been made, the NAACP field secretary questioned the role of the FBI in Missi.ssippi. He said, “The FBI hasn’t been able to get enough evidence to put anyone jail. Yoii really be gin to wonder, ‘what good n'" they? What are they doing here?" In a letter to FBI Director T Edgar Hoover, also mailed Mon day, Mr. Evers expressed ex treme shock at a recent state ment of law officer's in which he is quoted as saying “lawless ness in the South is no worse than lawlessness in the North." "We mu.st feel,*' declared Mr. Evers, “that when the national director of the FBI can make statements such as this, the lu natics who would deliberately destroy human life or property are encouraged." Dr. Henry cited a half dozen of the 14 cases to the WhiS? House last March in an elTnrt Sse BODIES, 4A Over $17 Billion Discrimination In PRICE: 15 Cents j Brief ing Session Is Conducted By Constance B. Motley RcV. GRAHaM Rev. T. Graham Funeralized at West Durham Funeral services for the Rev. Thomas Carr Graham, 74, of 120 Rowan Street, will be held Friday, July 24, at West Dur ham Baptist Church, the chUrch which he served as pastor for 43 years. He died at Lincoln Hospital Tuesday following an illness of about four weeks. Rev. Graham moved to Dur ham from North Wilkesboro to assume the pastorate at West Durham Baptist Church in 1921. and since assuming his post had become one of the most revered and respected ministers in the city. Born in Iredell County, Dec. 31, 1889; he was the son of the late Richard Graham and Mat tie Flowers Graham. He attend ed Shaw University and was ac tive in religious and civic acti vities in the city. In addition to his wife, Mrs. Martha Graham of the home address. Rev. Graham is surviv ed by two brothers, the Rev. J C. Graham of Winston-Saiem, See GRAHAM, 4A Southeastern _ Lawyers Ass'n In Raleigh Meet WILMINGTON — A gala hospitality hour will be open the Summer Conference of the Southeasrefh liawS^efS Assocla- tion meeting in Raleigh, whicli begins on Fi"iday, July 24. The Conference will end on Satur day, July 26. The meeting, scheduled for the Meadowbrook County Club IS expected at attract over 100 lawyers from three states. North Carolina, South ' Carolina, and Virginia, according to Lisbon C. Berry, Director of Public Rela tions. Mrs. Ruth Harvey Wood, of Danville, Virginia,, is presi dent of the Association, The theme of the meeting will be, “The Impact of the Civil Rights Act Upon the Law Prac tice of Members of the South eastern Association," At 10;00 a, m. Saturday. July 25, the Continuing Educa tion Committee will present Michael O. Flnklestein, Assil- tant General Counsel of the Commission on Civil Rights Washington, D. C., who will ex plain the newly enacted Civr Rights Act of 1964. Immediately following this session, J. Le- Vonne Chambefsv former stafl member of the^AACP Legai Defense and I^ucation Fund. Chester Antieau, Professor Oi Law, Georgetown University, Matthew Perry, South Carolinr. Attorney, Attorney LeMarquif Dejarmon, Professor of Law, North Carolina College at Dur ham, and maiv others, wil' participate in a series of panel discussions. Speaker for the Annual Ban quet will be The Honorable Spottswood Robinson, U. S. District Judge and former Dean of the Howard University School of Law, Washington D. C. Anti-Defamation League Compiles Itemized Report NEW YORK N. Y. — Federal civil rights legislation gives southern states a chance to avoid tlie ruinous costs that de fiance has meant in the past, ac cording to a report, “The Price We Pay,” last week. The report, prepared by the Anti-Defamation League of B’- nai B'rith and tlie Southern Re gional Council, documents the vast cost incurred by the South’s resistance to equal opportunity. It itemizes thq, price for discri mination in the economy of southern communties, employ ment, legal procedures, educa tion, culture, and tourism. Ex penses range from the $17 bil lion loss in gross national pro duct—estimatcias-tlie -cost, oi discrinpination against Negroes, to the $138,429 spent for police overtime and equipment in Jackson, Mississippi, from late May through August 1963, to combat demontrations. Telling its story through news items and editorials selected from a large range of publica tions, the report includes the following as reason why the South can no Jjbger afford dis crimination: — A failure, in recent years, in some sections of the South, to attract any large amount of new industry. — Young, educated Souther ners leaving the area rather than “put up with all this raci al strife.” — The “staggering” cost to See REPORTS, 2A Is Spent For Deep South Mystic Shrine Delegates Slated For St. Louis DR. COOKE Local Physician Given Honor as WINSTON SALEM — Dele gates from more than 45 states, including Alaska, who are repre- .sentatives of more than 16.5 Temples of the Ancient Egyp tian Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shr.ne are expected to attend the annual convention in Saint Louis, Missouri, August l(i-21, to a.ssay the work of Prince Hall Shrinedom. They will also plan the work of flie 22,000 member organization for the next year. Tlie plenary convention will get underway, formally, in Kie! ! Auditorium, Monday, August 17. , Earlier Shriner and their fami lies will worship Sunday morn ing, August 16 at Union Memo- ^riul Methodist Church; attend a I Public Program Sunday after- ,noon in Kiel Auditorium and 'honor deceased Nobles during a Negro Affairs issued a citation 1 evening Memorial Serv- to Dr. David Bonnet Cook, local Pleasant Green Bap- physician, on Saturday, Ji.ly 18,1*'*^ Church, in recognition of the many I conventjon is ex years of self-sacrificing service | draw upward of 5,00(' to the welfare of the Durham ' and visitors. In addi- Community as a meml,er of thc|*'”'^ conference business the Prince Hall Shriners will stage a golfing and bpwling tourna- The Durham Committee Executive Committeu of tire Durh&nr’ CoiTunittee on Negro, , , Affairs, and because of 'the ficient service rend(/red by him as treasurer of the organization. Dr. Cook wai also givSTi special note because of the ^ sterling examples of father and 1 family living, alert, intelligent | and cooperative citizenship) fur-' nished by him for all the peoplc'j See PHYSICIAN, 4A rades, present their annual Ta lent-Scholarshlp Pageant, and attend an Oriental Ball. As final pre-convention plans See SHRINE, 4A Shaw University President Announces Faculty Appointments RALEIGH — President James E. Cheek has announced the appointment of the following persons to the administrative staff of Shaw University: Thomas E. Kee of Raleigh, Dean of Students. Mr. Kee re ceived the A. B. dgeree from Shaw University, the M. A. de gree from Columbia University, New York; Diploma in French Studies, University of Borde aux, France; and he has done further study at Howard Uni versity, Washington, D. C. Middlebury College (Foreign Language School), Middlebury, Vermont, Columbia University, University of Bordeaux. Kee Is a native of Newark, New Jersey and taught in the public school system there. He has been employed at Shaw University as Associate Profes sor of Romance Languages for 16 years. Mr. Kee is married to Mrs. Einora McCrimmon Kee, cashier, Shaw University. They are the parents of one daugiiter, Brenda Eltrine Kee, a junior at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, and twin sohs, Thomas and Ti mothy Kee, fourth graders at St. Monica’s School, Raleigh. Dr. Leon C. Riddick, Summit, New Jersey, Director of De velopment tind Public Relations. Dr. Riddick is a graduate of Shaw University with the A. B and B. D. degrees. He was honored by Virginia Seminary and collegs with degree Doctor of Divinity In 1955 and also by Shaw University with the same degree in 1960. Dr. Riddick has taught in the Stephens Lee High School, Ashe ville; servM as Director, Chris tian Education and Training for the General Baptist ConventTjii of North Carolina; author of “Handbook for the Promption' See SHAW, 4A m Civil Rights Act Tested in White Va. Barber Shop ROANOKE, VA. — One of the initial tests of the Civil Rights Act was made here re cently when the Rev. David H. j Jackson entered a downtown barber shop which had previ ously t>een ali white, requested a haircut, and was promptly i and courteously accommodated. He thus became the first Ne- gjjo to publicly receive a hair cut in a previously segregated Roanoke shop. The barbershop is located on a busy street .. in the basement of the Colonial American National Bank. Rev. Jackson is pastor of Ebenezer AME Church and vice pre.sident of the Roanoke Branch NAACP. NEW YORK — Or. Helen Edmonds of 118 Nelson Street, Durham, attended a civil rights briefing seminar at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund headquar ters here this week. The seminar was conducted by Constance Baker Motley, as sociate counsel of the Fund, whose efforts in behalf of James Meredith won her natienal re cognition. Dr. Edmonds is Director of National and International Trends and Services for the Links, Inc.. a social action orga nization with 104 ahapters, one of which is located in Durham. The Links have aided talent ed Negro youth from disad»/an- taged background to secure first rate college educations. In ad dition, they have given financial assistance to efforts combatting i many social problems. They recently pledged $75,- 000.00 to the Legal Defense Fund from a women’s organiza tion. The funds donated by tlie Links support the Defense Fund’s expansion program. As the legal arm of the entire civil rights movement, the Legal De fense Fund has Increased its full-time staff of highly skilled constitutional lawyers to 17, and currently works with 120 co operating attorneys throughout the South. Howard C. McAllister, form-! attorneys are conducting fhe er^Dean of Boys at the,, James! courthro'om tests of the A. Whitted Junior High School, i 19^4 Civil Rights Act, pressing has been recently named prin-1 campaign for school inte- cipal of the same. He replaces ! in more than 80 South- James E. Schooler, Sr., who has communities, and defending been named principal of the j thousand of citizens arrested new James E. Shepard Junior taking part in peacef-ul-de- High School. I monstrations. McAllister, who taught at I . Defense Fund victories include court orders enjoining Governor Wallace from inter fering with Alabama school de- McAllister H. C. McAllister Named Whitted Jr. taught at Henderson Institute at HenTer-! son, prior to his coming to Dur ham, joined the Whitted faculty in 1950t He was educated in the Dur ham City Schools and was graduated from Hillside High School. He received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts De grees from f'ayetteviile State College ahd New York Univer sity respectively. It was at these institutions t|)at he com pleted his specialized training in the prlncipalship of the Junior High School, He is a former Sunday School teacher at the WWte Rock Bap tist Church, in which he holds membership. He is also a mem ber of Kappa Alpha Psi Frater nity; Zafa Temple 176, of which he was recently promoted to a Past Potentate; 32nd Degree Masons (Consistory Lodge 218) and Doric Lodge 28. In the teaching profession; he is affiliated with all the local, state, and national teacher as sociations. Stating briefly his phiosephy, McAllister believes in the value and dignity of his profession and respects the worth and dig- See McAllister, 4a segregation, securing the first steps toward integration in Mis sissippi, and a U. S. Supreme Court decision freeing 77 sit-in demonstrators. ' Dr. Allen E. Weatherford Chosen For New Development School Photo by Purefoy Asa T. Spaulding to Tour With 0. S. Trade Mission to C. America A. T. Spaulding, President, of North Carolina Mutual Life In surance Company, left Friday, July 17, to join other busine.ss and industrial executives from around the country on an eight- man U. S. Tfrade Mission to Cen tral America and Panama. The group, named by the U. S. Department of Commerce, will take a one month tour of this region to stimulate greater interest in U. S. industrial pro ducts, to focus attention on joint-venture profit potentials, and to bring back new sales op-1 portunities lor American com-1 panics. Mission members, who have Just completed an intensive 4- day briefing session in Washing ton conducted by the Depart ment’s Bureau of International Commerce (BIC), have been selected for their business ex perience in food processing and marketing, consumer chemical specialties, lumber and wood products, textiles and textile machinery, general industrial machinery, small-scale indust, ries, and industrial development investment. The Mission expects to bring hack to the United States many grp SO«MI 4A Dr, Allen E. Weatherford, II, chairman of the North Carolina College Department of Physical Education and Recreation, and Dr. Carl S. Blyth, in charge of the Laboratory of Applied Phy siology at the University ot North Carolina at Chapel Hill, have been designated as per sons to outline a program of physical education for the New Developmeiital School in Wins- ton-Salem, The school is sponsored by a grant which is also matched by funds from the State. A n experimental school, established for the purpose of assisting secondary-level under achievers (persons identified as having IQ’s of 106-115 but not making satisfactory grades), the institution will enroll stu dents from North Carolina and other Southern states. Along with students, some 50 IcniboiM f'f ihesi uuderuchiev- ers will attend the school and will receive instruction and in formation about new techni?*ies and materials from specialists who will be selected from throughout the nation. The schools which will enroll 350 students and teachers four times per year, is one of four of Gov. Sanford’s special pro jects designed to conserve and enhance the utilization of human and natural resources. D r. Weatherford recently participated in the National Conference on Professional Ed ucation for Outdoor Recreation which was held at State Univer sity College of Forestry at Syracuse University, Syracflse, New York. He was a resource person to the conference and was also fii charge of one of the four divi sions. The section for which he was responsible treated exten- ■Jio'i ^irtivii le.., Judge Thurgood Marshall Named As Elks Speaker MIAMI— U. S. Circuit Judge Thurgood Marshall will be one of the principal speakers at the convention of the Improved Benevolent Protective Order of Elks of the World in Miami Aug. 21-28. Judge Marshall will speak to the group at 8 p. m. Aug. 24 at Bayfront AuditoHum. The convention, biggest book ed by the City of Miami Con vention Bureau this year, is ex pected to attract some 10,00u persons, according t o Larry Mansfield, bureau manager. Bishop Carey A. Gibbs 0 f Madison, Fla., will deliver the baccalaureate address at 7:30 p. m. Aug.* 23 at the auditorium. Largest Methodist Youth Assembly Closes At Bennett , GREENSBORO — The larg est Youth Assemtsly ever held by the North Carolina Confer ence of the Methodist Church closed its one-week session at Bennett Collage on Friday with a registration of 14-1. Greensboro led the list with 29, followed by Winston-Salem with 17. The youngsters came from all over the state and from Roanoke and Norfolk, Va. The Rev. J. W. Ferree, of Winston- Salem, directed the assembly and was assisted by a staff of 19. In addition to classes, work shops and clinics, the youngsters engaged in a variety of recrea tional activities. The following persons were registered; Fannie Boyd, William Brown, Brenda Brown, Shirley Carter, Myrna Donnell, Vivian Fuller, Isabelle Glover, Edwina Grif fin, James Gwyn, Sylvia Ann Gwyn, Judy Harriion, Patsy See ASSIMBLY, 4A

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