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BISHOP G. W. BABER
Presiding Prelate
SEC'Y LUTHER HODGES
Speaker
REV. M. C.,SWANN
Program Co-ordinator
REV. C. C. SCOTT
General Director
DR. R. W. MANCE
AME CHURCH TREASURER
REV. SYLVESTER ODUM
Editor-Chrittian Recorder
.REV. FRED C. JAMES
Consultant - Director
MRS. DAISY BATES
Luncheon Speaker
St. Joseph’s Set For A.M.E. Retreat August 11-14
Commerce Sec'y
Uither Hodges
Guest Speaker
The Annual Uotroat ;ni(l Con
vocation of tho Sccoi^’,1 Epicopal
District of the AMK Clun jli will
be held at St. Joscpli's AME
Church, 804 Kaycttfville Slrei't,
Tuesday, Aug, 11, Ihrouyli. Fri
day, Aug. 14.
Bishop George W. IJnbcr is the
presiding bishop o fthc Second
Episcopal Distiict which covits
Ijklaryland, The District of Cohim-
bila, Virginia and Nurth Carolina
The Rev. Melvin Chester Swann
ta pastor of the host church and
program coorilinator.
^ SEC’Y HODGES TO SPEAK
l-uther fL ilodges, Secretary n(
(JikNorth Carolina, will be the
,|(lie!it speaker at the, ■A'cicome
program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
At 9 p.m. a bul'fel reeoplion will
be held at the Vtvic C.'eiiter on
Foster Street in downtown Oiir
^am.
At the keynote worship .service
Wednesday at 10 a.m. thi- Hcv.
Vinton R. Anderson, minister of
the St. Paul AMK Church, St.
^oui8. Mo., will deliver the main
ddress. The Rev. C. C. Scott will
reside.
ORATORICAL CON"^ESr
f-' '
An oratorical contest and talent
tprogram will be per.ientcd at 7:3(.
P. M. and at 9:30 Ihe youth will
be the guest.? of Nortn Caiolina
Klutual Life Insuranc'; Co., Mo
chanics and Farmers 15ank Mu
tual Savings and Loan As.50cia-
tion at a weiner roast in the
North Carolina College suudiuin
FELLOWSHIP BREAKFAST
Thu.srday at 7:45 a Ministeria'
Ffellow.ship Breakfast ’.vill be helc
jn the Hill Room of the Jack Tar
Hotel with the Hcv. G. Dewey
.Robinson as toastmater and Dr.
See ST. JOSEPH'S, 4A
Mt. Vernon Hosts Woman’s Home And Foreign Mission
Junior-Young
People's Session
Key Feature
CbeCari
VOLUME 41 — No. 31
DURHAM, N. C.—27702 SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1964
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Over Two Million Negro Voters
In Southern States
MRS. M. a; HORWE
President
REVr~E. T. BROWNE
Host Pastor
W. A. Branton
Releases Figures
After Survey
ATLANTA, Ga.—Negro voter
registration in the eleven south*^'
cm states totaled 1,937,982 as ol
April 1, according to the latest
state-by-state taublation by tho
Voter Education Project of the
.Southern Regional Council.
Wiley A. Branton, Director
of the project, recently released
the figures on registration and
results of the VEP program.
The April total exceeded VEP
v'xpectations. Since then the tot
al registration in the eleven
states has ciearly passed the 2,-
JOO.OOO mark, Mr. Branton said.
And he said further “good-
sized increases” can be expected
between now and the November
See REGISTERED, 4A
'I’ho 80th Annual Session of
the Woman's Baptist Home and
Foreign Missionary Convention
of North Carolina will be held
August 11-14 at Mt. Vernon
B.-iptist Church pastored by the
lii'v. Dr. K. T. Bi-owne.
Mrs. M. A. Horno is presi
dent of the convention which
I is an Auxiliary to tho General
j Baptist State Convention, Inc.,
land will be operating ol^' the
' theme, "'I'he tJnlinish'ed TasK^^
I from Acts 1:8.
Following registration and re
ports at 9 a. m. Tuesday, the
executive board will meet with
i Mrs. Rosalie F. Wyatt, chairman,
I presiding. At 1:15 p.m. tho gen
eral board will meet and ad-
1 ministrative officers will re-.
I port. Mrs. Horne will be in
ENFIELD—A North Carolina .jn the Halifax voter registration | charge of this session,
civil rights ofiicial, charging campaign. State Mission 'Night will bo
ihat a Jul. 30 attempt to burn' Federal District Judge John observed at Tuesday's evening
down an Eniield Negro grocery session, und at 8:40 p.m. the
store is "but the latest incident I the hearing for- Rov. A>H. McDaniel, moderator
in mounting Ku Klux Klan ter-iHalifax County, of Kowan Baptist Association
See KLAN, 4A i and pastor of Union Baptist,
■ ’ Chureh, WJnston - Salem, will
; deliver the annual sermon.
I PKKSIDKNT’S ADDRESS
! Mrs. A. B. Byrd, first vice
CR Official Charges Klan Influence
In Enfield Store Burning Attempt
rorism in Halifax County, ' haS|
asked for Federal^ and State!
protection for Negroes in this|
northeastern black-belt county.!
John R. Salter. Jr., Raleigh, i
field secretary for the Southern j
Conference Educational Fund
(SCEF) said that, shortly before
midnight on July 30, a large!
amount of kerosene was thrown I
on the side of the grocery store i
I and ignited. The fire was extin-|
guished before extensive dam-
Leaders Call
For 'Moratorium'
On Mass Protests
NEW YORK (NPI),
president, will preside at the
Wednesday's activities. Among
the highlights will be a program
beginning at 10 a.m. featuring
the Convention Choir directed
by Mrs. Clara N. Hayes, and
j the president's address by Mrs.
Eight I Rev. C. C. Craig,
age had been done to the store meeting m aji assistant executive secretary,
which belongs to Curtis Pittman 1 summit sessio.., General Baptist State Conven-
of Enfield. Salter said that Ne- Wednesday, i.ssucd a cail tion. Inc.. (GBSC) will make
gro residents in the area re-
STUDY IN EARTH SCIENCE IN-1 fects of heat radiition with an Callie R. Ellison, Morganton; J. ported that they had seen a car-
STITUTE—Thes> students attsnd- apparatus they consrtucted. In the A. Stawart, Laurlnburg; and Mrs.
Ing the Earth Science Institute at group from left to right are; Mrs. I Ruby L. Ingram, North Wilkes-
A. and T, College, study the f- Connla L. Joyner, Thomasvillo; I boro.
Tenn. Election
Battle to Test
Negro^Strength
load of while men driving
around the general neighbor
hood shortly before the fire
broke out.
NEGRO DEPUTY
ASST. POSTMASTER
GENERAL RETIRES
WASHINGTON, D. C. —
Christopher C. Scott, 61, a post
al careerist who attained tho
highest rank ever held in the
SOMERVILLE, Tenn.— (NPI) j Postal Service by a Negro, will
—Thursday, Aug. 6. marks an retire as Deputy Ass.'stant Post-
auspicious day on the calendar ! master General for Transporta-1 eame an unplanned CORE Free-
of rural Fayette county, for it . tion and International Services | dom Day in Gadsden county,
expected to unfold t h c ; Aug. 28, after nearly 42 years! When the registrar's office open-
l09-Year-0!d
Woman to Vote
For First Time
QUINCY, Fla.^-July 27 be
j Salter said that “several
I large Texaco fuel storage tanks
I sit about 25 yards from the
I store and. had the fire gone on
much longer, it could have very
j easily ignited tho tanks,” He
I said that if that had happened
j the Negro neighborhood sur-
I rounding the store could have
I been destroyed. "Possibly that
I was the motive of the arsonists,"'
I he said.
j Salter also charged that arm-
I ed and robed Ku Klux Klans-
I for a "moratorium ’ on mass the invocation. Greetings will be
marches, picketing and other brought by Dr. R. Mack Pitts,
demonstrations, until after the GBSC president; presentation of
presidential elections next Nov-|C«BSC auxiliary presidents will
meber 3. | be made by Dr. O. L. Sherrill,
The “summit” session, held i executive secretary. The Baptist
at the office.s nf tho NAACP, Informer and the Rev, Coleman
JOE E. ALLEN
Police Officer
Completes M.A.
Requirements
Patrolman Joe E. Allen of the
Durham Police Pepartment re
cently completed all of the re
quirements for the tlegrec of Mas
ter of Science in the Department
of Physical Education and liecie-
ttion Education at North Oarn-
lina College at Durham. Allens
thesis is entitled "A Comparative
Study of Recreational Programs
Sponsored for l.aw Enforcement
Officers and their Families ‘‘in
the Largest 18 Cities in North
Carolina With Those of 18 Capi
tal and 10 Large Non-Capital Cit-
jes Located in Various- Geogra-
pbical Regions Throueiiouf the
United States.”
Hia information was ascertained
from Chiefs of Police in each city
See ALLEN, 4A
A. C. FELDER
SENIOR DURHAM
CITIZEN DIES AT
LOCAL HOSPITAL
Allie Clay Felder, Sr., of 012
Dunbar Street, was funeralized
Wednesday, August 5, at the
White Rock Baptist Church
with the Reverend Miles Mark
Fisher officiating. Acknowledg
ments and Resolutions were
given by W. J. Kennedy, Jr.;
prayer by the Reverend S. P. i
Biggers, and a solo, “The Lord’s |
Prayer,”’was rendered by Mrs. |
Margaret K. Goodwin. Felder
died on Sunday, August 2.
Florai bearers were members
of the Daughters of Dorcas Club
and the Year-Round Garden
the first time in tho history ot
the cotton area bordering the
Mississippi river.
That is the day when the con
tests for sheriff and tax asses-
Sce BATTLE, 4A
John A. Gronouski
this week.
See POSTAL, 4A
Democratic National convention
which conv«fies in Atlantic City
Club. Pallbearers were members ! on Aug. 24.
qX the Shepard Sunday School
Class.
Felder was born in Orange
burg, South Carolina, on Sep
tember 5, 1889. The son of the
late Harry C. and Louisa Fel
der, he was educated in the
'public schools of South Carolina
Se« CITIZIH lAv
strength of the Negro vote for of service. Postmaster GeneraT ed at 9 A.M. about 20 Negroes |have entered the Enfield
anounced had lined up. Between then and : several occasions in
I closing time at 5 P. M. there the past fow weeks and have
were from 15 to 75 Negroes in ' driven through the Negro neigh-
Scott, former superintend-1 tii^L-s. A Negro was I what he termed
_ _ ent of oiftgoing mail operationsi registered every second.!'^®® obvious attempt to
sor wnl be decideSr Ticketed "for I Angeles Post office, | number registered plus the an atmosphere of ter-
heavy Negro support are L, T. headed a staff of nearly ■*>" j nyfuber turned away during thisj*"®^' that crosses have
one day aproximately equalled | burned recently in front
the totel number of Negroes infield Negro homes and that
registered in the county as of anonymous threats have been
January. I "^ade again.st civil rights work-
I ers. “And in the Enfield police
One CORE member walked up station," Saler said, "posters
and down the line of tliosc wait-: advertising coming Ku Klux
ing to regi.ster, answering ques- j Klan rallies have been openly
tions and keeping the line or- * displayed on the police bulletin
derly. Another CORE member j board.” He said that he has sent
stood at the exit pinning ‘I Am‘telegrams to Governor Terry
Registered” buttons on those | Sanford and to Assistant U. S.
who had completed registration, i Attorney General Biirko Mar-
CORE Task Force workers, i *hall calling on them “to pro-
members of the local CORE, tect all citizens of Halifax Coun
group and adults from the voter ty from this terrorism.”
registration steering committee i In other Halifax County civil
canvassed and leafleted. ; rights news, Salter said that a
At about 2:45 a car from significant first round was won
Chattahoochc, 26 miles away,, during a July 31 hearing In the
arrived and a woman 109 was' case of Mrs, Reed .Johnson of
helped out by two CORE Task; Enfield—a long time Halifax
Force workers accompanying | County Negro teacher who filed
her. She had been born in slav-, a lawsuit last month charging
Four Negroes Named to Georgia's
Democratic Convention Delegation
. ATLANTA—(NPI)—For the I Georgia for many years, was
first time since Reconstruction, prominent in Georgia's Demo-
the state of Georgia has four ! cratic activities during the pre-
Negroes on its delegation to the j ceding presidential election.
In all the .Georgia slate con
sists of 64 delegates anii .'i3
brought together the Rov. Mar-
W. Kerr, editor. Dr. W. R.
tin Luther King, Jr., president! interracial
Southern .Christian Leadership i.
conference; A. Phillip Ran-I^^*’" -J^-Young F^eople’s
dolph, chairman, Negro Ameri-: ,1'"
T u ^ Wednesday with an address
can Labor Council - president !,,.,„.doied by Miss Ethel De-
Brotherhood of Sleeping Carijores McGricr, president. Mrs.
porters, AFL-CW; James Farm-1 l. e. McGrier, state supervisor
er, national director. Congress of the Junior-Young People’s
of Racial Equality; John Lewis, | Department will outline "The
See MORATORIUM, 4A ' See HOME, 4A
Marcus Garvey's 'Back to Africa'
Group Plans Harlem Demonstration
The four are State Sen. Leroy
Johnson, and Atty. A. T. Wal
den, both of Atlanta, and alter
nates Mrs. P. Q. Yancey. At
lanta; and T. B. Hooper, Macon.
' Sen. Johnson is the first Ne
gro to be elected to the state
legislature in some 30 years.
alternates. In announcing the in
clusion of the four Negroes,
Gov. Carl E. Sanders noted that
the “action is right and proper.”
“This is not a social club,” he
said. Thi's is a political organiza
tion and it is right and proper
that we have a cross-section of
the voters oi the state represeot-
Waiden, g political power ic ed.”
N’EW YOKK—(.NPI)—New York incidents,
just now relaxing from a wave of
rioting in Harlem that grew oul
of the slaying of a 15-;,car-old
youth by a white polite lieuten
ant, is busily girding itself for
what may be anotner outbrealf
Saturday, Aug. 8.
That is the (iay on which the
United Alritan NaUoiialisl move
ment proposes to stage a “filgan-
tice demonstration of 100,000 Ne-
groe,s" to ‘‘let the whole country
fcno"*' that the black people arc
united,”
The announcement of the
In issuing his call for a mass
(leinon,strati(m of unity, Lawson
said, ‘‘The black man is going to
ctwn every bank, every business,
and every hot dog stand in his
neighborhood. We are going to
elect a mayor, a police chief, a
President, and elect everybody;
and we are going to let the whole
country know that the black pco-
are united,”
The rally was called to pay tri
bute to the late Marcus Garvey,
Jamaican-born founder, and first
demonstration was made last I president of the UANM who, dur-
Saturday at a rally by Janjes Laiv-1 ing the late 20's and early 30's,
son, UANM president. Ho told a: advocated a “Back to Africa”
crowd of 700 cheermg Negroes,
“We have to stop white people
from exploiting black people.”
Two dozen policemen were on
hand to prevent any recurrence
ot violence
movement for Negro«*s
Garvey died in 1940, without
ever realizing his pet dreim. How
ever-, the “Back to Africa” drive
is still being pursued on a reU-
which gripped the lively small scale by the Kasta-
ery, sht told them, and thought, that her teaching job 'was ter-1 area two weeks ago. The rally, farian sect in independent Jamal-
See IW-YEAR-OLD, 1*. bocauje of he.-activius: v.’JiiuL liiteti t.-.'O GROUP, 4..
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