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Mrs. Nancy fir^(;X^oy Takes Lead In Times Beautician Contest
UNITED STATES SUPREM
Mrs. LBJ To Visit City
VOLUME 41 — No. 39
DURHAM, N. C.—27702 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1964
RETURN REQUESTED
IS Cents
NAACP Back InAlabama
After Eiaht Year Ban
Wilkins Hails
Termintition as
First Lady to
Make 15 Minute
Durham Stop
Some 30 Democratic Party wom
en wore in attendance at a meet
ing Tiiesclay ntght at the party's
Corcoran Street headquarters at
Mrs. Johnson mm tm rtahra'AWacl
which the oflieial welcoming
group for Mrs. Johnson was nam
ed.
Durhamitcs listed on the wel
coming committee arc Miss Ellen
Warren, Mr.s. Joe Sponcc, Mrs.
Hance Hofler, Mrs. Nick Galifiana-
kis, Mrs. Bernice Ingram, Mrs.
Marvin Carver, Miss Lou Constan-
tinuu, Mrs. Dilliird Griffin, Mrs.
Travis Porter, .Mrs George Miller*
and Mrs. George Birmingham, Jr.
Al.so chosen were the following
committee i’o chairmen: Mrs. Ja-
p'leno 1!'I'd, entertainment; Mrs.
Geoi'ge Eaves, decorations; Mrs.
John Daih'.V, transportation,- Mrs.
Holidoy Inn Must
Accept Negroes
In Nashville
CINCINNATI—The U. S. Court
of Appeals this week ruled that a
Nashville motel must accept Ne
groes.
Thejcase has direct implications
for alT urban Renewal programs,
l)iiilt before 19ti2, which include
Negroes.
Attorneys of the NAACP Legal
Ilefenso Fund won this action.
Tlie Holiday Inn Motel, which
nefused Negroes in Nashville, Ten-
nes.see, was built on land cleared,
in part (two thirds), with federal
funds, a.s part of Nashville's ur
ban renewal program.
Acting under Tennessee laws,
the Nash\il!e Housing Authority
"condemned or purcha.sed the 72
acres of land needed for the pro
ject" (the Capital Hill Redevelop
ment Project).
Tliey then “relocated 301 fami
lies and 196 individuals," the
Court of Appeals pointed out.
Of the families moved out, 288
refreshments, Wednesday iniirnin". October 7, | were Negroes as were 180 of the
and Mrs. Mary Xrent Semans, fin-1 when her "I.ady I’.ird Special' iiuli\ iduals moved. Subsequently
anee. pulls into the city for fifteen- ' Holiday Inns of America, In. pur-
The citizens of Durham, Chapel j niinut" "v.’hi.stle stop'' at the City i cha.sed its property.
Hill and vicinity are expected to, Parking l.ot. i The Court further pointed out
t)T—t+re—thou.'tiindn—tfr- Etfttwwnle f>litn>' Iwtng- made—thart- th*^ that the afeh'.t vsw»re h
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Roycroft,
Step Forward
NEW YORK—The National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, barred by ai\
Alabama court injunction from
operating in that state since 1956,
will shortly resume activity in the
one .state of the Union in which
it new has no.,Iocal organuation.
Papers regi.stering the A.««ocia-
tion as an out-of-state corporation,
the first step towards resumption
nf activity, were filed with Ala
b.ima Secretary~of State and the
State Department of Revenue in
Mcntgomcry, Wednesday, Sept. 23
■VAACP General Counsel Robert
L. Carter announced this week.
Virginia Duncan, publicity; Mrs.
tnm—mrt-
greet Mrs. Lyndon Johnson • next i
See MRS. LBJ page 4A
Lillington Resident Is
First As Race Tightens
Young Raleigh Minister Having
Great Success at AME Church
RALEIGH—The story of the un-
NAACP Executive Director Roy I usual growth and development of
Wilkins hailed the successful ter
mination of the ca.se and cxpress-
c.'I confidence that the Association
will soon regain its “position of
leadership” in Alabama.
a small church into one of the
most progressive of the city was
revealed here this week when M
was brought to light that under
the leadership of the Rev. John
NEW EDIFICE of fh* New Bethel i th« new building for tlie firct time | the Rev. L. W. Re!d, who is now
Bapfist Church, located on Crest Sundry morning at eleven o'clock, rounding out his 19th year as the
Street. Services will be held in | The sermon will be preached by I pastor.
PERCY
Williams To Address
NAACP At Greensboro
An order from the Circuit Court K. Epps, St. Matthew A. M. E
of Montgomery County, handed : Church of Raleigh is experiencing
down on Sept. 10, dissolved a per- | an era of progress that is unsur-
manent injunction banning NAACP I pa.ssed by any of its size in the
activity in the state and cleared entire state.
the way for reorgaaization of lo- i Rev. Epps, who is a young min-
cal Association units to resume! ister, came to St. Matthew less
the NAACP civil rights program j than a year ago 'a hen he' was
in Alabama. transferred from Durham where
This order, i.ssued in compliance he had pastored the Kmanuel A.
GREENSBORO — The 21st An
nual Convention of North Carolina
State Conference of Branches will
pre.sent on Saturday, October 10,
Percy H. Williams of the Presi
dent’s Committee on Equal Em-
• ployment and* who is Special A.s-
gistant to the Vice Chairman of
the Committee.
Williams is the Assistant Execu
tive Director for Contract Compli
ance of th,e President’s Committee
on Equal Employment Opportunity;
Midwest Regional Director, Presi
dent's Committee on Government
on Contracts; Director, Job Op
portunities Program, American
Friends Committee; Research As-
goclate. Mayor’s Committee on
Community Welfare, Chicago;
Claims Representativf and Special
Investigator, James J. Herman Ad
justment Company, Chicago; Mem
ber of Staff* Industrial Relation
Department, International Harvest
er Company.
Williams will discuss the func
tion of the President’s Committee
on Ekiual Employment, the pro
gress of Equal employment and
private employment and the em
ployment pattern changes result
ing from complaints. He ‘A'ill also
discu.ss equal employment in Fed
eral Government.
The purpose of this discussion
tt the convention Is to educate
See WILUAMS 4A
M. E. Church.
When he arrived as the new
pastor at St. Matthew he found
the treasury empty and the spirit
ual side of the church at a low
ebb. Today the church not only
has taken on new spiritual life
REV. EPPS
with a United States Supreme
Court decree brings to a close one
of the landmark cases in consti
tutional law. The final verdict in
NAACP V. Alabama gave “consti
tutional support and protection to
organized civil rights activities
and thwarted attempts to destroy but there is money in the treas- ■ pa.storate. Add to this the cxten-
the NAACP and the civil rights : ury. I sive renovation program now un
movement,” Carter pointed out. | In addition to an increa.se in | derway at St. Matthe-A' and you
The NAACP, Wilkins said, “will j financial growth, 31 new persons will have some conception as to
See ALABAMA, 4A I have been added to the member- j the high spirit that now prevails.
ship roll since last Ijcceniuer 1
when Rev. Epps took over tiie
DURHAM
Man Crushed To Death
Under Garbage Truck
Prince Edward Willis, a 63-year- Perry attributed the cause of to stop. When the truck stopped
Mr«. Nancy P. McKoy of LiUing-1 ‘ '
ton. who finished In fourth place '
last week, let it be kno'.vn l)i.si
week that she will have to be j
reckoned with in the Carolina |
Times fourth annual Beauticians |
Popularity (Vntest now eniling its|
third week. Mrs. McKoy forged j
ahead this week and went on to j
nose out Aliss Montez liates for |
the top position. i
With only two regular ballots |
preventing Mrs. McKoy and Mi«s ,
Bates from tying for first place ^
and with Miss Victoria Moore of
Durham and Miss Gloria Hankins i
of Southport (miy a fe'A’ points
away it is hard to determine who
will he the winner of tbs first
prize in the race, which is a
brand new beautiful mink stole.
Second pii/.e, an airplane round
trip to Bermuda and the third
prize, an airplane round trip to
the ew ■^'ork World’s Fair.
The contest manager is again
urging all active contestants and
their friends to mail or bring their
ballots to the office of the Caro
lina Times, 436 E. Pettigrew St.,
Durham, N. C. by Wednesday noon
of each week. Ballots .sent by mail
and bearing a post office stamp
up to midnight Wednesday each
A'erk of the contest will be credit
ed tlie same as if brought to the
office. Those received after Wed
nesday noon will be ciedited the
following week.
As is customary during all
popularity contests run by the Car-
See BEAUTICIANS 4A
that the Motel was conceived by
I the Capital Hill Redevelopment
I Project, “its creation was made
I possible by the execution of the
project, and its exi.stence' is no"#
governed to a great degree by
j (he project’s predetermined de-
■ sign and controls.”
1 The judicial order comes as a
I eonplement to the Civil Rights
Act of 1964, which does not ape-
jtifically cover housing among its
provisions, although it does cover
The court waited before decidirv;
this case to-.see whether the Mo
tel would voluntarily comply after
Congre.ss pa.ssed the new rights
legislation.
The suit was filed by Dr. Vasco
A. Smith, Jr. a Negro dentist from
Memphis who was refused a room
on December 4, 1962.
MRS. ALMA H. WADE
N. C. Mutual Official Honored by
Adv. Ass'n Meeting in Chicago
in^lu
Mrs. Alma H. Wade, Di
of Advertising and Publii
tions fojMMb^North Carolina*
tual Company has
returned, ®ij^hicago where she
attended'tfffe 3lst annual meeting
of file Life Insurance Advertisers
Assd^tion (LAA} on Septembet
• r
old veteran city employee was
killed accidentally Thursday when
crushed beneath the wheels of a
gs.bage truck on which he was
wrrking.
The victim, -.vho lived at 21#
Powd St.. was backed over by a
truck driven by Hubert Wesley
Massey. 55, of 1011 Chalk Level
Road, in the Handy Pantry park
ing lot at Buchanan Boulevard and
Guess Road. His head and chest
The meeting was held in the j were run over by the truck’s rear
Drake Hotel.
Richard S.- .Maggman, $uperin-
tendeht of Advertising foni^orth-
western Mutual Life l£|j^rance
wheels.
Investigating officers .stated
that the death was accidental, and
Patrolman E. R. Francis said no
Company Is the- or^^jatioo’s charges w’ould be placed against
See HONORkO, 4A' Massey, County Coroner, Dr. D. B.
death to severe head and chest
injuries. Massey was called one
of the city’s “best drivers.”
Evidence suggested that Willis,
who had been with the city 17
years, slipped and fell on'—the
■,vet pavement aftpr he had enr»p-
tied a garbage can. A fellow em
ployee of Willis, Ervin Bass, of
1407 Union Street, said that Mas-
the wheels were on Willis’ body
According to Patrolman Francis,
Willis was last seen .standing on
the pavement after emptying the
can and was not seen again by
anyone until he was under the
truck’s wheels.
Willis is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Lucy Willis; six daughters,
Mrs. Pearl Stevenson, Washington,
,sey was in the process of backing i r>. C.; Mrs. Evelyn Legett and
the truck toward the rear of
Handy Pantry, while he (Bass)
walked toward the front of the
building.
Massey told the investigating
officer that he had backed al>out
23 feet when he felt a “bump”
ind fce»rd P»S5 rry out for him
Mrs. Alberta Thompson, both of j REV. C. R. MITCHELL, nawly ap-
Laurinburg; Mrs. Annie Brown, j pointed pastor of St. Paul Baptist
Durham; Mr.s. Gertrude Jones and ' Church of Gastonia. He assunwd
Mrs. Willie Mae Brown, both of
Newark, N. J.; two sons, James
Willis, Durham, and Prifice, Jr.,
Newark, N! J.
his duties Sundny, S*pt*mti«r 20.
Before coming to &astenia. Rev.
Mitchell pastored the Fir»t Bap-
ist 'Church of Hamlet. ttory
-n p«3t 2-B,
Spaulding Off on
Busy Week of
Tours, Lectures
A. T. Spaulding, president of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company left the City on
Sunday, September 27, for a week
of debriefing, lectures and con
ferences in connection with a
Trade Mission Tour to Centr-al
America and Panama which he
made for the U. S. Dept, of Com
merce during mid-summer.
Spaulding was scheduled to ap-
I pear in Houston, Texas on Mon
day, September 28, for debriefing,
to be followed by lectures and
conferences with businessmen of
: the region. On Tuesday, he left
Houston for Washington "where he
I attended a luncheon given by
1 President Johnson at the White
House honoring Manilo Brosio,
' the new secretary general of the
I North Atlantic Treaty Organiza
tion (NATO).
On Wednesday, and Thursday,
Spaulding appears in Tulsa, Okla-
' homa to report on the business op-
' portunities in Central America and
! Panama to businessmen there.
‘ He is to appear in Durham on
' ^ I Friday to make a similar report
lo busine-ssmen in this lection of
" ’ the country.
“J i A Trade Mission is a selected
5 i group of businessmen—organiz^
■’41 to talk business—that carries spe-
I cific U. S. trade and investment
proposals to International mar
kets. The mission members repro-
sent the entire U. S. business cotn-
munity, not themselves or theii
companies.
During July and August, Spaul
ding and seven other businesafnec
traveled throughout Central
America and Panama and made »
one month tour of this region to
stimulate greater interest in U.S.
industrial products, to focus atten
tion on joint-venture profit poten
tials, and to bring back new sales
opportunities for American Con^
I panlei;. ~