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Volume 41 — No. 36’
DURHAM, N. C.—27702—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1964
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Over Million for 2 White Schools
^175^000 For 1 Negro School
Netfro leadership circles were
1
'fccked Wednesday when it was
^Announced by the County Board^
Education that $175,000 of^ a
million school bond was al-
>jycated for Pearsontown School,
^Mile two white schools were ear-
marked for improvements totaling
.290,000.
; The information, revealed bj
•Jester Smith, county school bust
■ ^ess manager, aroused charges of
i.^equity in the distribution of
^ jichool funds.
Smith said a grmtorium and
ucill be- financed
ith the money earmarked for
farsontown. Final plans are now
omplete and will be presented
sr the board’s approval Monday.
An tuditorium and 30 class-
tooms costing some $750,000 are
eheduled for Jordan Junior-Sen-
;^*^or ftlgh School, and a gymtori-
lim and about 22 classrooms will
constructed at Carrington Jun-
■^'kJr High School at a cost of some
|SOO,MX) according to the an-
aouncemtnt. Work at all three
fichodls is expccte^ to be‘‘complete
jbefore the 1065-66 school year be-
Jgins.
X According to Smith, the new
'^clissrooms will relieve trowdcd:
jf-.condltions at Carrington) and the
^idditional classrooms • at Jordan
‘^wlll provide space to add the
^*evewth grade to that school
* which now has grades eight
' * thro«gh 12. The seventh grade
If"was said necessary to complete
the junior-senior high school,
n See SCHOOL BOND, 4A
f Hitlside Park
I Residents Start
I Paying Drive
i|P In an all-out effort to hasten
the paving of the dusty and rocky ]
^ portion of East Alton Street be- ]
tween Janet and Otis streets, the \
' resMents of this section 'will meet;
Sunday, September 13, at the
V home of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hines,
•109 8«st Alton St. at 4:00 P. M.
to map plans for a paving drive.
This unpaved portion of Alton
^ Street has long been an eye-sore
, s. to visitors .as well as residents of
this community.
; Many of the residents complain
olF being unable to open their
windows and doors for fear of
havioc their furniture covered
,1^; with (ha yellow dust stirred up
'1 when automobiles enter or leavg
.14 this wction.
This exclusive section was be-
*/■ gun lome years ago by the Green
ly ber| Construction Co. Many of the
resti'eflts who purchased homes
iih in this development being led to
fbellived that the entire section
woMd be paved.
^ The students 'j’ho leave or enter
this portion of the street to and
rjfi from school find great difficulty
WJ on rainy days trying to walk
§ through this section without hav
ing their shoes caked with yellow
mud.
City Councilman J. S. Stewart
was to have been present at this
H meeting but for a previous com-
H mittment will be unable to at
tend. HO'#ever, he has offered his
wholehearted support to the drive,
and has promised to be piosent
for the next meeting.
Dr. Samuel D. Proctor Named to
Nat'l Council of Churches Position
REV. CHARLES E. COBB, Dvrham
native, whose phenomenal pasto
rate of on* of th* nation's laading
churches in Springfield, Maisachu-
tetti is told in this week’s issue
of the Carolina Times. (See sec
tion B, page 3). Rev. Cobb is the
ton of Mrs. Mary Cobb
sides with her daughter, Mrs.
James Allen at 611 Cecil Street.
PRESIDENT SIGNS
'64 HOUSING ACT
WASHINGTON, D. C. — “I be
lieve that we have a commitment
to a.ssurc every American an op
portunity to live in a decent
home.”
With these words President Lyn
don B. Johnson signed the far
reaching Housing Act of 1964 in
the Cabinet Uoom on Wednesday
in the presence ef Housing and
(See HOUSING, 4A) -
NEW YORK, N, Y.—Dr. Samuel
D. Proctor, associate director of
the Peace Corps, has been named
general director of interpretation
of the National Council of
Churches, it ■A'as arinouneed this
wpek by the Council's general"
Secretary, Dr. R, H. Edwin Espy.
His aniiointment bcconies offcct-
ive Sept. 14.
Dr. Protcor comes to the Na
tional Council from the Peace
Corps, with which he has been
associated for the past two years.
In his new post he .succeeds Dr.
Murray'' S. Stedman, Jr., who has
rp.signed to join the faculty of
Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.,
as head of its Government Depart
ment.
“The appointment of so distin-
.guished an .^marican and ihur»h
man as Dr. Proctor,” t>7.' fispy 1
said. "His experience as a leader
in the church, the N^gro commu
nity and the Federal Government,
together with his years ' of serv
ice in the field of education, emi
nently qualifies him for-signifi
cant contributions In the coopera
tive church movement.”
As general director of interpre
tation, Dr. Protcor will assist and
advise the general .secretary and
other National Council staff “in
matters of public relations, repre
sentation and interpretation.” he
will assume leadership in formu
lating’’ common position state
ments for use in interpreting past
or continuing activities of the
^ DR. PROCTOR
Council," Dr. Elspy .said.
An ordained mini.ster of the
American Bapti.st Convention, Dr.
Proctor was president of th* Agri'
cultural and Technical College of
North Carolina, Greensboro, until
1962, 'When lie left to become
Peace Corps representative to Ni-
rcctor Sergeant Sliriver, In 19fi3
he was named a.ssociate director
of the Peace Corps, with rosponsi
bility for administering its volun
teer program.
Before assuming the presidency
of the Agricultural and Technical
College, Dr. Proctor served for 11
years in academic and admini.stra-
Continued on IB, 2nd Scction
22 More Beauticians
Nominated In Contest
Philadelphia In
Lead as Vote
Drhre Opens
NEW YORK — Leading tlic
NA.\CP's nationwide registration
drive is the Philadelphia branch
which has added more than 53,000
names to the voters' rolls in that
city over a period of six weeks.
iiy tlie time regi.stration closes
on Sept. 14. "We will have in
creased the number of Neuro vot-
er.-i in tliis city by at least 100,-
000," Cecil Moore, president of the
Philadelphia NAACP, confidently
prelicted. The drive, he said, had
been interrupted by the distur
bances (he weekend of Aug. 28-30,
“but our 'A-orkers are back now
getting our people registered."
Reports leceived in the National
Office of the NAACP indicate a
s'teaflily mounting momentum in;
the most extensive registration!
drive ever undertaken by the;
A.s.sociation.
Four staff members ajf devot-1
ing full time to this eflort'vwhich I
Kxecutive Secretary Roy Wilkins j
has called the Association's No. 1 .
project. They are Mi.ss Althea I
.«immor'! ’"ho was brought to New |
i ork from her post in Los Ange-1
Inc (f» hpari lip and coordinate the j
DELEGATES—Four of the dele- here. The Rev. J. A. Brown, »e- which i» a young woman repre-
gates and visitors to the recent ccnd from right, pastor of the sentative from Africa who is
session of the Lott Carey Baptist Ebcneier Baptist Church of Dur- showing some natl\A African
Foreign Missionary Convention ! ham, is shown cor^versing with handiwork in leather,
held in PiMsburgh, Pa. are shown • three of the delegates, one of J
N. C. Native Named
At Wednesday noon 39 beauti
cians had been nominated in the
Fourth Annual Beauticians Popu
larity Contest which officially be
gins Monday, September 14, when
all active contestants will be ex
pected to make their first report
by mail or in person to the office
of the Carolina Times, 436 East
Pettigrew Street, Durham, N. C.
Each beauticians nominated
will automatically receive 5,000
points. After nomination each
regular vote coupon, clipped from
the Carolina Times and sent or
brought to the office of the news
paper will count for 1,000 points.
A person may vote for a beauti
cian as many times each 'iveek as
he or she pleases. Bonus votes of
15,000 points will be given for
each annual subscrilption to the
Carolina Times secured in behalf
of a beautician. The number of
points for subscriptions for a
longer period will be quoted in
the Times each week.
Persons desiring to cast a bonus
vote for a beautician may do so
by clipping the vote coupon from
their copy of the Carolina Times
after 'which they must write in the
name and address of the beauti
cian and mail or bring same with
the price of the subscription to
See BEAUTICIANS CONTEST 4-A
ftEGINALD DALTON, Junior axe-
cwtivia of N. C. Mutuwl Life In-
suranea Company of Durham, who
was elected president of the Lay
men’s League of th* Lett Carey
Baptist Foreign Missionary Con-
viention which met In Plttcburgh
Iktt week. Under Dalton’s lead
ership Ht« League It expected to
take on new life during the com
ing year.
All-White Jury
Frees Sheriff of
Beating Charge
GREENSBORO — An all-white
Grand Jury, on hearing the case
of a Durham County Deputy Sher
iff accused of (he unprovoked
beating of a Durham County citi
zen, found “no true bill” in the
case here Sept. 3.
The deputy, I. E. Jacobs, had
been accused of beating with his
rightstick Ed',vard Evans, 43, last
fanuary in the back yard of the
deputy’s home. During the beat
ing Evans’ arm wa.s factured by
a blow from the nightstick accord
ing to a physician who examined
him immediately following the in.
cident.
Te.stimony indicated that Jacobs
and Bill Jones, another Deputy
Sheriff, went to Evans’ home on
the afternoon of January 25 and
demanded that Evans get into the
car they were driving. Assuming
he had committed a traffic viola
tion while driving home, he ac
See BEATING, 4A
nationwide drive: Calvin D. Banks,
nperating out of New York City I
'or tlio non-southern states; John
Brooks, ba.scd at Richmond, \'a.,
ind W. C. Patton at Memphis, for|
the .southern states. |
Thousands of volunteers havet
been enlisted by the branches!
throughout the country to carry (
)n the sometimes tedious work of |
getting people to go to the regis-'
(ration offices in order to be at)le
til vote in the presidential elec-
‘ion. These'>0ltimtP&rs, on whom
the success of the drive depends,
execute a wide range of tasks—
getting lists of unregistered citi
zens, . door-to-door canvjsising,
making telephone calls, addtess-
Ing and stuffing envelopes, hand
ing out literature, and the like.
The drive embraces not onljj the
Continued on IB, 2nd Section
NCC TEACHER
PARTICIPATES IN
CALIF. WORKSHOP
Dr. Walter M. Brown, director
of student teaching at North Ctr-
oiina College, led a series of 12
discu.ssions at the six-day Associa
tion for Student Teaching’s Na-
(ional Summer Workshop at San
Diego State College, San Diego,
California, in August.
He spoke also on a closed cir
cuit television symposium on the
conference theme, "Continuous
Growth — A Profes-sional Impera
tive,” at the meeting, held in con
junction with the California Work
shop on Teacher Education.
A native of Durham, Brown
See TEACHER, 4A
President Of Lott Carey
Eleven to Be
Graduated at
Lincoiii Sunday
' ' !* ’-^.1
Eleven students of Lfrtcoln' Hos-
pita! School of Nursing were grad-
ua(ed in formal exercises here
Thursday. The final session of
the 59th commencement exercise
will be. held Sunday, September
13 atr I{(iss4*11 Memorial CME^
Church, 703 Alston Avenue at
3:30 p.m. when the students re
ceive their diplomas.
E V. Fox, administrator of
Kate Bitting Reynolds Memorial
Hospital. Winston-Salem will de
liver the commencement address.
The traditional Junior - Senior
prom has already been held in
connection with (he commence
ment activities, and on Saturday,
Sept. 12 at 1:00 p.m., the gradu
ates will be guests at a luncheon
sponsored by the Alumnae Local
Chapter.
The graduates and their home
towns are as follows:
Nellie Olivia Ellis, Weldon:
Anna Mac Gooding, Kinston-,. Car-
lita LaVerne Hall, MeLean, Va.;
See GRADUATE, 4A
DR. J. C. HAIRSTON, North Car
olina native and pastor af the
Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church
cf Pittsburgh was elected presi
dent o( the Loft Carey Baptist
Foreign Missionary Convention
lest week. Dr. Hairston was born
at Petersville, N. C. and is a grad
uate of Slater Normal Industrial
School, now Winston-Salem Teach
ers College.
NEGRO SEEKS N. C. STATE
GRIDIRON BERTH
RALEIGH—The fir.st Negro to
par(icipa(e in major spor(s at
North Carolina State has reported
for freshmen football practice. He
is Howard Poole, one of 40 candi
dates for the team.
NCC Head Repeats His
Pledge Of Progress
President Samuel P. Massie
greeted members of the North
Carolina College faculty Thursday
morning and repeated an earlier
pledge, “to make North Carolina
College a good place to work, live,
and serve.”
Addressing the group during
(he first .session of the college's
(hree-day faculty institute, he as-
se.ssed the college, its prospects,
I and its problems in a speech en
titled, "North Carolina College—
Today and Tomorrow.” This is
the theme of the institute.
Speaking about recent educa
tional developments in higher
education in North Carolina, he
said all state-supported colleses
See MASSIE, 4A
Equal Employment Seminar
More Than 400 Business and
Community Leaders to Meet in Tex.
WASHINGTON, D, C. — Names
of speakers and panelists for the
Southwest Regional Seminar on
equal employment opportunity on
September 15 In Dallas, Texas,
were announced this week by the
President’s Committee on Equal
Employment Opportunity.
The one-day conference at (he
Sheraton-Dallas Hotel is being
sponsored by Southern Methodist
University in cooperation with itie
Plans for Progress unit of the
President's Committee on Ekjual
Employment Opportunity. The
conference will bring together
more than 400 business and com
munity leaders from New Mexico,
Arkansas, Oklahoma, Louisiana,
and Texas.
Keynote speaker at the opening
ses.sion will be (iiffoi'd Johnson,
President of Ling^Temco-Vought,
See employment, 4A
Dr. J. E Hairston
To Head Foreign
Mission Group
t’irreBlJRGH, Pa. — Dr ,1 C.
' H^Wstop, piastOr of (ho Si.vth
‘Mount Zion'Baptist Church' here
was elected president of (ho Lott
Carey Baptist Foreign Mi.s.sionary
Convention meeting in its sixty-
seventh annual session at the Rod
man Street Baptist Church, the
Rev. G. L. Bowick. pastar. Mrs.
J. S. L. Holloman, Washini'ton,
D. C., wife of Dr. J. S. L. Ho'lo-
man, wa.s eleoted president af the
Woman's Auxiliary.
Both Dr. Hairston and Mrs. Ilol;
loman are new pre.sidents e.r t-he
convention. Dr. Hairston, a native
of Petersville, N. C.. was educate.1
in the public schools of Davidson
County and graduated from Slater
Normal Industrial Ins(i(ute (Now
Winston-Salem Teachers Collp'.;e\
' the Moody Bible Institute, attend-
j ed the University of I’ittsburch
I and has been honored by the Vir
ginia Theological Seminary, with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
I He has pastured the Sixth
, Mount Zion Baptist Church in
Pittsburgh for thirty-six years and
recently completed an education.il
building at (he cost of almost
$150,000. He's pa.st president of
(he Baptist Ministers Alliance of
Pittsburgh and has serve! as
treasurer of the I’enna. Baptist
State Convention. His wife. Mrs.
Bessie Hairston was elected secre
tary of the Women's executive
board.
Dr. Hairston succeeds Dr. E. A.
Parham, of Columbus, Ohio, who
has served as Presidenf of the
parent body for the past three
years. Mrs. Holloman, wife of
Dr. Holloman, who is editor of
the convention’s organ (Th e
Herald) succeeds Mrs, M, M, Ran-
some, Richmond, Va., who has
directed the women for the piist
twelve years. As a tribute to Mrs,
Ran.some’s years of service, pre
sentation was made to her on
Woman’s night.
Continued on page 3A
PRINCfe EDWARD COUNTY
SCHOOLS OPEN AGAIN
FARMVILLE, Va.—Rural prince
Edward County re-opened its pub
lic schools tor the, first, tiniip in
five years thia week with virtual
ly every white, student in the
county boycotting the classes.
EGISTRATION BOOKS WILL OPEN OCT. 3 FOR NATIONAL ELECTION