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VOLUME 41 — No. 35
DURHAM, N. C.—27702—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1964
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43 NEGROES Bt:GIN
ICOUT CHARTER PRESENTED— were, from left ,H. W. Cillit, scout, tional r.pr^.nt.iv. .nd p.,tor of | CLASSES QUIETLY
IN WHITE SCHOOLS
Jackson Mississippi Is Praised
The charter tor the Boy Scout
(roop at Mt. Zion Baptitt Church,
WM presented Sunday, August 30.
^•rtlcipating in tht ceremony
executive; Wilbert Hayes, post the church; Spencer Wynn, neigh
chairman; Franic Bright of the Or-; bcrhood commissioner, and Hay-
ganizition and Extension Commit- wood Allen, chairman of the Pack
tee; Dr. William Fuller institu | Committee. —Photo by Purefoy
For Voter Action
_PHlLADELPfflA—‘Action Now’
fUS the closing theme •£ Alpha
' K»PPa Alpha Sorority's 41st N.i
iional Convention held recently.
^ addition to launching plans to
inbbilize citizens in a nation-wide
voter registration project, the oi-
gntzatlon iJlcttCPd tn ttrhver tn
the NAACP, through its more
thin 300 chapters, 1,000 life mem
bershipc by 1966.
■ (ThU effort will be kno'.vn as the
AKA-NAACP Project, and will
compliment the life membership.'
that the sorority takes out annual-
li(' in memory of deceased sorojs.
Reaffirming its belief in the
principles of democrary as out
lined in the Constitution, the Bill
Of Rightarthe Declaratiuu of In
dependence, the United Nation.*!'
Declaration &f Human Rijjhts, and
the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the
96-year-old sorority resolved to
vork for the inclusion of Negrc
history in all educational media.
T 'Among newly-elected officers—
ilong with Dr. Larzette G. Hale
,(^ Langston, Okla. who will take
office at the 1966 biennial meet
Los Angeles—are Mrs. Eli-
^beth S. Randolph of Charlotte,
Mid • Atlantic Regional Director,
»nd Mrs. Odessa S. Nelson of Go
^umbia, S. C., South Atlantic Re-
'giOnal Director.
i.'The organization urged con-
h See SORORITY 4A
SNCC Worker
Faces Georgia
Electric Chair
ALBANY, Geoiala—A field see
retary {rom the Student Nonvio
lent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC) faces the electric chair
for the second time in less than
a year.
. 24-year-old Donald Harris, Di
rector of SNCC’s Southwest Geor-
(ii '‘Project, faces two charges of
"insurrection” here, capitol of
ienses in Georgia.
This is the second time Harris
has faced insurrection charges and
the death penalty because of his
anti - segregation activities. On
August 8, 1963, Hams and three
other SNCC workers were jailed
in nearby Americus and held be
hind bars for 68 days until a three
judge federpl panel ruled the law
unconstitutional.
The three were held without
bail, since capitol offenses arc
not bailable in Grorgia.
The current outstanding war
rant against Harris stems from
charges he initiated a riot here
after the slaying of a mentally re
tarded Negro youth by policemen
August 15.
So far, he has escaped arre.st
'^-^n the charges. However, the Rev.
Samuel B. Wells, a local minis
ter active tn the Albany move
ment, was arrested on similar
charges and has been In jail un
der $5,000.00 since Augutt 18.
The insurrection charge, Geor
gia Cbde 26-902, has been ruled
unconstitutional t'^ice; once in
1937 by the United States Su
preme Court and In 1983 by the
See PACBI 4A
FIRST NEGRO DELEGATE—The
first and only Negro ever to be
named at a delegate to a Nation
al Democratic Convention from
Nci'th Carolina was J. H. Wlieeler,
president of the Mechanict and
Farmers Bank .ind Chairman of
the Durham C.immittee on Negro
Affairs. Wheeler was a delegate
to the 1964 Demo Cenvention held
•I in Atlantic City, N. J. la^t week.
I He was accompanied hy J. S.
4 Stewart, president o> the Mutua!
Savings and Loan Association and
former chairman of the Affairs
Committee. Stewart was invi'^sd
by The WrCrPgmocrats Executive
Committee, as guest or }Ke Con
vention. Both Whaeler and Stew
art report much progress of the
1964 session in the direction of a
bigger and better participation o
Negroes in the affair > of the Dem
ocratic Party in tne future, not
only in North Carolina but
throughout the South.
ASKS FT. WORTH
ItO.OPEN SCHOOLS
I IN FOUR AREAS
FORT WORTH, Texas, — The
NAACP has called on the School
Board here to adopt a policy of
full integration for the public
schools in th? foijr areas of the
See FT. WORTH 4A
JACKSON. Mi,ss—NAACP Mis
si.ssii)pi Field Secretary Charles
Evers praised school officials and
citizens “for the splendid manner
in which they have received de
segregation of our public schools,”
Ahcn 43 Negroes were quietly
registered in previously all-wliite
schools recently.
City officials had taken elabo
rate precautions to forestall any
possit^’ violence. Police were .sta
tioned at each of the city's white
schools to keep traffic moving
and only parents, children and
registering teachers were allowed
on school grounds.
Mississippi was the last state to
accept court-ordered integration,
10 years after the Supreme Court
decision. A Federal court order,
resulting from an NAACP suit,
requires desegregation of one
grade a year in the state’s capi
tal.
Named in tlie NAACP case were
the son and daughter of Medgai
Evers, NAACP field secretary whc
was murdered last year.
At a mass meeting his brother
Charles, who has taken over the
NAACP position, urged Negrii
parents not to "let a little fear
stop them.”
Four Cabinet j
Posts are Filled'
By Elks Head
MIAMI, Fla. — llolison R. Rey
nolds filled eiiht cabinet posts in
cluding two new ones in Miami
Friday immediately after beinp
installed as the Grand Exalted
Ruler of the Improved Benevolent
Protective Order of Elks ot the
World.
Other elected officers also were
in.stalled during the final business
session of the Grand Lodge Con
vention at Miami’s Bayfront Pari
Auditorium Friflay.
Reynolds named C. M. Smith, ol
Philadelpl:'-', Grand Chaplain; Dr.
Wilbur H. Strickland, also of
Philadelphia, Grand Medical Ad
visor: Attorney Ermer Wat.son
WATTS TRUSTEES
TO VOTE ON PLAN
FOR INTEGRATION
Trustees of Watts Hospital will
meet probably this month, defi
nitely within GO days, to vote on
the proposal to de.segregate the
facility as recommended by a
See HOSPITAL 4A
M
PARTICIPANTS in the Civil tended, was sponsored by th« So- Rev. Grady Davis, Callis Brown,
Rights panel discussion htld at j elal Action Committee of the I Prof. Lemarquis DeJarmon, NCC
the Union Baptist Church here church. From left to right are ' Law faculty, Dr. C. E. Bouleware
Sunday afternoon, August 30. The Atty. T. T. Clayton, Warrenton; I and Dr, Howard Fitts,
meeting, which was largely ' at- I W. C. P*arson, John Edwards, [ Piioto by Purefoy
Cleveland. Legal Advi.sor; Robert
Coleman, Chicago, Chairman of
Elks National Chanties; Earl
Chapman, New York, Membership
Chairman; Ralph Smith, Chicago,
Security Commissioner.
The nowly created offices went
to Ileriirrt Jones, o[ Wa.shington,
1). C., Liason Officer to the Grand
Exalted itiiler, and George Me
Cree, Chicago, Sociil Sessions Of
ficer. o
C. J. ..\ew.some, of Atlantic City,
was the only new officer elected
by the body. He was elected
Grand Tru.stee.
Cleveland, Ohio was .selected a.s
the 196() convention site with Ro
chester, N. Y. being named the
host city for 1967,’
Earlier, Philadelphia had been
.selected 1965 convention site.
ISAACP Ups Register
And Vote Campaign
NEW YORK—With only two
months remaining before election
day, units of the National Associ
ation for the Advancement of Col
ored People have stepped up the
Association s on-going drive to
register the largest number of
Negro voters in the history ot the
country. Miss Alteha Simmons,
who heads the NAACP rationwid(
campaign, reported this week.
Campaigns have been initiated
In 46 states, most of them under
direct NAACP sponsorship. A few
are under cooperative sponsorship
See CAMPAIGN 4A
Last Rites Held For Mrs. Margaret
Battle From White Rock Church
The funeral of Mrs. Margaret
Freeland Battle, wife of William
V. D. Battle wis hcU at White
Rock Baoti.st Church, Wednesday,
September 2, at 4:00 P.M. Thh
euology was delivered by the pas
tor, Rev. Miles Mark Fisher.
Mrs. Battle, daugntur ol the
late Pleasant and Mrs. Mary Free
land, succumbed August 30 at
Duke Hospital, following a leng
thy illness.
She attended the public .scliools
of Durham and was a graduate of
N. 8. College. ft>r several years
See BATTLI 4A
24 Added to
NCC Faculty
For New Term
Twenty-four faculty mcmbc'rt-.
fourteen visiting teaciifrs, and
nine other cmployee.s will join the
North Carolina Colkv'p admini.“
tration, faculty, and st.iff for the
1964-65 school year. President >S.
P. Ma.ssie announced this week.
In addition to app' iiitments
made earlier, new personnel havr
been named to the departments of
art, biology, economics, English,
health education, home economics,
music, physics, and nimance lan
guages as well as seviral admini.s-
trative and non-academic units (W
the collciie.
P’acutly members are the fol
lowing: Robert F. Kennedy, art;
K. M. S. Asis, Mrs. Jean Boyer,
and Mrs. Caroline H. Tucker,
biology; Itayinond A. Mallat, eco
nomics; Benjamin M. Lifson, Mrs.
Martha R. Lifson, Miss Christie W.
McCoy, and Samuel R. Shumaker,
English; Mrs. Mildred 0. Page,
health education.
Dr. Jean 0. Cooper, Mrs. Ruth
II. Johnson, and Mrs. Muriel B
Lievsay, home economict; Robert
Baistow, Air*;. Hile;i F. Gil.'ijft.
and Mrs. Dorothy J. Kitchen, mu
sic: Mi.ss Ethel Harvey and Paul
T. Sikora, physics; Miss Moniquo
Bras, Eugene Eaves, Dr. Margaret
W. Jones, Robert J. TWayberry,
Stuart Meltzer, and Dr. Margaret
E. Weitzner, romance languages
Visiting teachers are W. E. Cun
ningham, Latin; William A. Marsh.
.Mrs. Lizzie Crews, Herbert Gray,
Murray J. Marvin, and Lindsey
Merritt, commerce; William Ray
Marty, political science; James W
Clay, geography; Mrs. Elizabeth
Goldman, mathematics; Mrs. Jud
ith Fortney and Mrs. Elizabeth
Chanlett, sociology; Jonn Dalzell
and Robert G. Byrd, law; and M.
A. Herrera, Spanish.
New admini.strative personnel
See ADDED 4.1
Three Big Prizes
To Be Given to
Top Contestants
A total of 17 beauticians had
been nominated in Iho Carolina
Times fourth annual Beauticians
Popularity Contest at noon, Wed-
nesda.v, September 2. ft l.-i esti
mated that the number of beau
ticians will be increased to 35 or
40 by - the time the voting period
begins on September 14.
At .stake in this year's contest
are three big prizes. The first
and grand prize is a mink stole,
the secontl, an airplane round
trip to Bermuda and the third,
an airpliine round tr p to the
New York World's Fai;-.
As .stated above, ball.Tting in the
contest will .Jjegin September 14
and continue for six weeks, end
ing Monday noon, October 26.
Nominations may be made by
>vriting in the name and address
of a beautician in the nominaiion
blank in the adverti.senient ap
pearing in this issue ot the Caro-
lin;i Times on page 2B The blank
must then be mailed or brought
to the office of the Tinu-s, 4.36 E
Pcyigrew Street, Durham, N, C.
aj'tci" which inst.‘uj'.ii)iis will he
mailed to the nom'ne';.
Those nominated are
"Mrs. Alene Mumford .
Mrs. Oorles.sa Hacket . .
Mrs. E. (irandy . .:. .
Mrs. Inez Minor . ..
Mrs. Mozolla Jones .
Mrs. Lucinda Barrett
Mrs. Francis Fiis iit
Mrs. Carrie 15 Hardy
Miss Dorothv I'eele
as follows:
Kin.ston
Burlington
.. Durham
Chapel Hill
Greensboro
. New Bern
Clinton
Greenboro
. Goldsboro
WHAT is befTeved to have been
th^ biggest watermelon of the
19*4 seas^ 'ln Durham was dis
played here last week by a local
merchant. The luscious melon
weighed a total of 126 pounds,
three times the weight of Ronald :
Hunter, admiring youngster at ;
right. Jimmy Grecri" af left also j
looks on with admiring wonder at |
the sizeable melon.
Photo by Purefoy |
Last Worship Service is Held in
Greensboro's Bethel AME Church
JGREJENSBORO — The last wor
ship services wore held at Bethel
AME Church, 'A'hich was crccted in
1894, Sunday, Aug. 16, before the
building is demolished to make way
for a “New liethcl" to be built on
the old church's site.
At the 11 a.m. morning service
the pastor, the Rev. P. Bernard
Walker, spoke from the 15th Chap
ter of Exodus. He said in part,
"The Israelists were moving nut
of Egypt, carrying many experi-
'hci’s, which characterize our rfe
-.ires and hopes at this time," He
urged his listeners to "stand still
and see the .salvation of God. 15e
not discouraged, keep 'the faith.
Tell all," he continued, ‘ Bethel is
moving forward with the help of
God. May God keep you strong
In the very near future you will
see the desire of your hearts.”
Beginning Sunday, August 23
and until the new edifice is ready,
Sunday School will be held at 9
a.m. and morning worship at 11
a.m. in Carver Hall Auditorium
on the campus of A. and T. Col
lege.
Carver Hall is on the corner ol
Laurel and Sullivan itreets on the
North Campus.
In the closing evening services
'.vhich began at 8 p.m. Sunday, the
Rev. Charles S. Walker, pastor of
Herndon AME Zion Church. Lin-
colnton, was guest speaker. He
took a text from the 10th Chap
ter of St. John, using the topic,
“Christ, the Abundance of Life."
Among special guests were the
Rev, Cecil Bishop, pastor of Trin
ity AME Zion Church, and the
Gospel Choir ot Trinity, which
furnished music. The service was
sponsored by Bethel’s "R e d
Group,” which has Mrs. Laura H.
Greene, as chairman, for the ben
efit of the building fund.
Because Labor Day is Monday,
S«pt. 7, news and advertising
copy should reach us early. Mail
or phone your copy TODAY to
insure itt'^S^earanc* in the Sept.
12 *d3t!'^n.
BAPTIST LEADER-The Rev W.
M. Downs, national publft rela
tions dlractor of the National Bap
tist Convention of America, which
is holding its 84th annua! session
in the Shrine auditorium, Los
Angeles, Sept. 8-13 (NPI Photo)
\
CME Pastor at
Chapel Hill Sent
To Charlotte
CHAPEL HILL—The Rev. W. R.
Foushee. who oastored St. Joseph
CME Church in Cnapol Hill for
nine years, has a.ssumed duties as
the new ministur of Williams
CME Church in Charlotte.
Assignment io the larger Char
lotte congregation Ts^li promotion
for the minister during whose
tenure at St. Jo.seph, the church
acquired ncv property and paid
off a 10-year mortgage in seven
years. Funds for a new parsonage,
presently under constructoin, were
also raised.
Long active in fraternal, reli
gious and civic activities in Chap-
Ceo PASTOR
wia. Ethel Grave.s gufHiiniuti
.Mrs. Helen Pater . ... Sanford
■Mr.s Callie A.':hror;l . . IJuniam
•Mrs, Sarah Little Kinston
Mrs. Lucille Glenn . . . Burlington
Mrs. J. DeShazor Jackson. Durham
Mrs. Beatrice Mack . Whitdker?
Mrs. Maggie Powell Rocky Mt.
Religious leader
Arrested With
Gun, 'Cocktail'
PHILADELPinA — The self-
styled Muslim leader who was ar
rested last Monday a;id accused
of having in his pos.se.ssion several
Molotov cocktails and a pistol,
lias stated that tne alleged Molo
tov cocktails were bottles of clean,
ing fluid for nis cleaning estab
lishment, and that he was given
the pistol as collateral for monc%'
loaned to a friend.
He was held on 10,000 bail.
Shaykh Muhammad, tne beared,
fcz-wcaring relitious leader owns
a Cleaning pl.int on Philadelphia
ave., a street which was ravaged
by rioters following a racial dis
turbance. The di.sturhancu. began
shortly after midnight Saturday
and lasted .some 13 hours.
The violeiico was .sparked by
rumors that a p.'egnant Negro
woman who was arre.sted Fridhy
evening had been beaten to death
by police officers in a jail celL
The woman, Mrs. Odessa Brad
ford, a 39-.vear-old waitress, was
apprehended at 22nd street and
Columhia avenue by a Ne^ra
policeman, when she refused to
make an effort to start her car
which had stalled during an argu
ment she had ’.vith her husband,
who was a passenger in the car.
A police officer statsd that Mrs.
Bradford first placed her foot on
the brake, and then, after sta’.t-
ing the car, jamm.'d the accele
rator and tried to run over him.
She was dragged bodily from
the car and taken to jail. The
rumor was started during her
confinement, and in the ensuing
vandalism aimed mainly at white-
owned establishments, numerous
•stores were broken in, looted, and
equipment destroyed. Dozens of
Negro businessmen and merchants
placed signs in their windows
stating: “This is a Negro Bu#i
ness,” hoping this would prevent
vandalism.
During the outbreak of lawless
ness, 449 persons, including about
12 white persons, w^re arrested,
Mrs. Bradford was released un
harmed from Jail some 20 hours
after she was arrested, on the
plea of Negro leaders who said
the best way to prevent further
violence was to prove that Mrs.
Bradford was alive and uninjur
ed.
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