Mann Film Laboratories 7kO Chatham Rd. Winstor^alem, 17 Named th Beauticans Popularity Contest VOLUME 41 — No. 35 DURHAM, N. C.—27702—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1964 RETURN REQUESTED PRICE: IS Centa Of Schools In 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. MiMiiMiiiiliiiMMHilililaiaMiliiiiiiiliiiliiiiililiil nil i

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