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Expect Largest Negro Vote In November Election
VOLUME 41 — No, 37
DURHAM, N. C—27702—SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1964
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VISITS WHITE HOUSE — W. A.|le«d*r$ Invited to a luncheon walks of American life to empha-
Cl^ment, CLU, Vice Pre»icnt and | meeting at the White Houte. Thi*! »iie a need for continued national
Af*ncy Director it shown with was a part of a series of meetings 1 unity. Clement was the only Ne-
PfMldent Lyndon B. Johnson the President hat been holding gro attending the meeting,
he was one of 192 butinett { with repretentativet of various |
Beauty Shop Owner In
Lead of 42 Contestants
Voting in The Carolina Times
BeAuticians popularity Contest ex
ceeded all expectations for the
first week with Mrs. Montez Bates
of Durham holding the top posi
tion Wednesday at noon. Other
contsetsants who showed evidence
of being strongly supported by
their friends and admirers are
Miss Louise Powell of Clinton,
Mrs. Nancy McKoy of Lillinston,
Mrs. Milton Burton of Hendcr.son,
Mrs. Helep Hartley of Ooidbsb'ro
and Mrs, Willa B. Lee, Hender
son.
With the contestants beginning
to work themselves this week the
contest manager says he expects
the battle for the three big prizes
to take on greater momentum as
the time for reporting for the
second week nears which is Mon-
dliy noon, September 21.
At stake in the race is a beau
tiful mink stole as the first prize,
An airplane round trip to Bermuda
IS the second prize and an air
plane round trip to the New York
See BEAUTICIANS, 4A
Dick Gregory, Famed Comedian,
To Visit Durham Monday Evening
Shriners To Launch All-out
Attack On School Dropouts
Dick Gregory, famed comedian,
is scheduled to appear in a spe
cial benefit program at the Dur
ham Civic Center Monday,' Sep
tember 21, at 8:00 P.M. Also ap
pearing on the program will be
folk singer and composer, Len
Chandler.
Gregory, who more recently has
been involved in civil rights acti
vities, e.specially in Mississippi,
gained nationwide popularjty with
his satire on satire on current is
sue.'!, particularly on civil rights.
He was an outstanding athlete
both in high school in St. Louis,
Mo. and Southern Illinois Univer
sity. After college, Gregory mov
ed to Ch'cago and '.vas employed
bv the U. S. Post Office there.
After a brief period in postal
See GREGORY, 5A
GREGORY
TO HILLSIDE — Pictured
akvve are tU membtrt of the
1941 Hllltide Hornett Club a« they
admire the all-weather athletic
fMtlMlI hoods which will be pre-
aanted to the 1964 HHItide High
School football contingent and
school officials Saturday night |
during intermltsion of the Hllltldt |
vertut Darden (Wilson) title tched-1
uled for Durham County Memo- i
rial Stadium at 8 o'clock. I
From left to right are; Johnny i
Ford, Vice Pretldent; Arllt Plum-
misr, Astittant Treasurer; Henry
Cameron, Assistant Secretary;
Thomas Won>ble, Bobby Perry and
Secretary Erwin Allen.
—Photo by Purefoy
The Shriners of the Desert of
North Carolina era planning ar
all-out attack on drop-outs, ac
cording to an announcement made
here this week by Imperial De
puty-at-Large, Frank G. Burnette.
The fraternal broHiers will
bring every drop-out possible tc
the Shrine Youth Bowl Game,
which will be played in County
Stadium, December 5. A special
committee has been formed to
formulate plans. Governor Terrj
Sanford, Imperial Potentate
Thomas S. Poag, Grand Master
Clark S. Brown and Dr. Charles
S. Carroll, Superintendent of Fub
lie Instruction, are honorarj
chairman. Burnette is general
chaiman of the committee on nt-
rangements.
A special promotion committee
headed by the veteran newspaper
man, Alexander Barnes, has be
gun ’wrk on the program. Gover
nor. Sanford is being sought to
climax his drive for “quality edu
cation" in a pre-^ame speech.
Prominent persons -from through
put the nation are also being
sought *0 lure drop-outs back to
sthool. ""
The plans call for a mam-
mpuUj, parade_ to pfeced^ J;be
game. Floats are to depict the
evil of drop-outs. The purpose of
the floats is to show the drop-
uts that they are not only crip-
rling themselves but they arc
holding back the economy of the
state and impairing our society.
The committee is attempting to
cet. the names and addresses of
every dropoUt possible and plans
to bring them to the garne as
"iipsts of the Shriners. Shrine
tomple.s. Masonic lodges, schools,
churches and other organizations
are being asked to join in the
crusade against this mounting
evil. Stars of television, screen
an radio, along with outstanding
athletes, inchiding Althea Gibson,
are being invited.
NCC Ups Request
Of Original
$7.7 Million
North Carolina College officials,
appearing before the State Ad
visory Budget Commission Sep
tember 10. requested $1.7 million
in additional funds to raise faculty
salaries and provide new services.
These re'-tc.sts, the institution’s
“B" budget recommendations, fol
lowed an Augu.st 18 capital im
provement reaue.st by the cnllefie
for $7,741,000 for the 1965-67 bi
ennium.
Presiednl Samuel P. Massie also
presented $287,000 in additional
requests to the capital improve
ment reque.sts made last month.
REAVES
NEW APPOINTEES — Lawrence
W. Reaves, Executive Assistant
Manager of the North Philadel-
These include $252,000 for the ' phia District of N. C. Mutual Life
construction of a chemistry build- Intu.rance Company and F. A.
See NCC page 4A I Ramseur, Manager of the Newark
RAMSEUR
District, who on September 14 as
sumed new duties with the com
pany. Reaves became Manager of
the Newark, N. J. District and
Ramseur was assigned to the
Agency Directors Staff .
Secy Busk To-Address
Negro Leaders At Meet
Hillside High School Hornets to Be Given Hoods
By Former Gridiron Stars at Saturday's Game
i
'The 1943 Hill.side Hornets Club,
H^e up of graduates of Hillside
riigh' School who were members
6f the unbeaten, untied, and un-
wjorcd on foptball team of twenty-
oitf years ago, spearheaded a
drive to purchase all-weather
athletic football hoods for the
school’s gridders.
The driye siiccensM. and
the hood; jire scheduled to be
presented to the 1964 team mem
bers, coaches and other school
officials Saturday night, Septem
ber 19, during the halftime acti
vities of the Hillside versus Dar
den High football game slated for
8 o’clock at Durham County Me
morial Stadium.
In addition to serving as pre-
.centnr.'s of the hoods to Hillside,
the ’43 Club will also be honor
ed by the City Recreation Depart-
■lent for their achievement dur
ing their first year of participa
tion in the community slow pitch
softball league.
Persons expected to take part
during the official presentations
include: I. R. Holmes and Roger
Brown of the .Department of Re
creation for the City of Durham;
See HORNETS. 4A
Negro Dropouts
Fare Worse Than
Most Whites
Young people’s usual difficul
ties in the job market because of
lack of work experience are cur
rently further compounded by the
growing number of young work
ers competing for available jobs,
coupled with the long-term de
dine in the relative proportions
of jobs which require little train-
inE! or skills. An additional factor
is the growing emphasis on a high
school diploma as a minimal edu
ction requirement for even the j
less-skilled jobs.
Among both graduates and drop
outs, white youths fared consider-1
ably better in jobs than the non-
'.vhite. Only 1 out of 5 of the
white but one-half of the non
white youths who had graduated
b'-tween 1961 and 1963 had jobs
!)5 service workers or as farm and
n''‘nfarm laborers, where employ
ment is least stable. Conversely,
c'erical jobs were held by 42 per-
cc’t of the white youths but by
only 10 percent of the nonwhite.
Among the dropouts of these
years, one-half tljp white and
three-fourths of the nonwhite
youths worked In the service and
laborer occupation groups.
As may be expected, greater
proportions of all white and non
white graduates than dropouts
worked at Jobs which require
more education and training.
However, the' disadvantaged eco
nomic position of the nonwhite
high school graduates is apparent
See DROPOUTS, i/.
NEW YORK—Secretary of State
Dean Rusk will be one of a num
ber of notables ’Aho will address
the forthcoming second national
tonference of the American Negro
Leadership Conference on ^frica
in Washington, D. C. Rusk will be
the luncheon speaker on Friday,
September 25 at the Shoreham
Hotel.
More lhan 40 national organiza
tions have responded to a Call
from the nation’s principal civil
rights leaders — Martin Luther
King, Jr., Roy Wilkins, James
Farmer. A. Philip Randolph. Whit
ney M. Young, Jr. and Dorothy
Height—to convene in the nation's
Capita! for the 3-day sessions be
qinning September 24 through the
27 at the Shoreham Hotel.
The C'lnference will bring to
gether. including the above, close
to 200 of the nation’s foremost
Nearo leaders, September 24
throuEh 27 in Wa.shington, I). C.
to study "The American Negro
Citizen's Role in Pursuit of a More
Kffective United States’ Policy in
Africa.”
Leading African diplomats, as
well as hieh United States govern
ment officials, will round out a
di.stinguished group participatin?
in the program.
The organization’s first con
ference in 1962 created interna
tional attention and was climaxed
by a White House meeting be
tween the late President Kennedy
and representatives of the confer
ence on its resolutions.
The luncheon attendance will
Sec RUSK, page 4A
Ministers and Laymen to Hold
Race-Rellgion Conference in N.Y.
MRS. F. M. Freeman
Named to Civil
Rights Commission
WASHINGTON — The nomina
tion of Mrs. Frankie Muse Free
man to the Civil Rights Commis
sion was confirmed Tuesday by
the Senate. The attractive, 47-
year-old attorney is associate
counsel of the St. Louis Housing
and Land Clearance Authority.
She has picketed for civil rights
and says she will picket again “it
the need is there.”
Mrs. Freeman was nominated
Sec FREEM-AN, i.l
NEW YORK — Thirty-one min
isters and laymen of the United
Presbyterian Church USA, along
with several leaders in the na
tional secular civil rights organi
zations, are to participate in a two
day conference on religion and
rpce in Cleveland, September 17-
18.
Dr, Reginald Ha'^^kins, Civil
Rights leader. Charlotte, is one
of the invited guests.
Purpose of the meeting is to
seek ways the denomination's
Commission on Religion and Race I
can offer additional help in the
civil rights struggle. Dr. Gayraud
S. Wilmore. Jr.. executive director
of the commission, said.
Plans call for the first day to
be .spent in di.scussion with the
secular leaders, on the church’s
role in civil rights action, includ
ing, problems and opportunities
that are involved. Rights leaders
"cheduled to take part include
blaster Current of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People (NAACP); a
-epresentative of the Student Non-
Violent Coordinating Committee 1
'SNCO: and David Cohen of Cle
veland. A po.ssible but not definite |
narticipant is Bayard Rustin, who j
■vas a key figure in the March on I
Washington and the first New
York City school boycott.
Papers outlining problems and
experiences of men and women
engaged in the United Presbyte
rian program on religion and raco
will be presented the second day,
with discussions to follows. To
make the presentations are Dr.
Marshal L. Scott of Chicago,
chairman of the Presbyterian
Commission on Religion and Race;
Dr. Wimore; and the Revs. J.
Metz Rollins and Robert J'. Stone,
a.s.sociate executive directors of
the commission.
The conference will begin at 10
a.m. Thusrday, continuing to 4
p.m. Friday, in the Pick-Carter
in Cl?”c!and.
Turnout Could
Affect Local
Outcome in '64
NEW YORK—A survey of voter
registration reports coming into
the National Office of the Nation
al Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People this '*eek
indicates that the turnout of Ne
gro voters in November could be
the large.st in the history of this
country. Not only that, but the
increased Negro vote could have
a profound effect upon the out
come of local contests in many
communities.
Figures contained in some of
the reports submitted by local
NA.^CP political action and voter
registration committee chairmen,
taken by themselve.s, may not
seem impressive. However, ' set
against the background of the
total community, significance of
the additional prospective Negro
voters enrolled is readily ap
parent.
Red Bank, N. J., is a case in
potnt. Local officials estimated
that only 350 persons In the ro-
•sort community of nearly 13,000
■vere unregistered. As of Septem-
bi'r 1, the NAACP had signad up
f50 Negro citizens. In recent elec
tions candidates have barely
sf naked into office with a plural
ity of approximately 100 votes.
Tiie new Negro voters, therefore,
become very important.
Other NAACP branches, con-
ITuHifiEr Independent campaigns or
working with other groups .re
ported results which were just as
meaningful. "■
In Texas, 350,000 Negroes were
registered, while the tally in the
nrighboring state of Louisiana
•Aas 175,000 to set a new high.
Previous high in that state was
160.000 in 1963.
NAACP officials in Norfolk,
Va., reported registering 14,600
persons as of September 1. That
was an increase of 3,700 since
July 1.
Figures from other areas in
clude Orange Coui*ty, Fla., 7,300;
Madison, N. C., 300; Howard Coun
ty, Md.. 3.000; Terre Haute, Ind.,
710; Compton, Calif., 2,088; Tuc
son, Ariz., 697; N«fW Londdn, Con
necticut, 353; Gratid Rapid!, Mich.,
1,056; Reno, Nev., 458; ;Morris
County, N. J., 2S5; feilS, 500;
Chester, Pa,, 2,000! aild Chillico-
the, Ohio. 743.
In New York City, a special
firehouse registration effort,
which ended September 5. netted
125.000 new voters, primarily in
minorit group communities.
And in Bayshore, N. Y.. an ex
clusively NAACP voter registra
tion operation, 2,251 prospective
voters signed up.
Baha'is to Hold
World Peace Day
Commemoration
The Baha’is of Durham will pro-
sent Glenford Mitchell, assistant
editor of Africa Report magazine,
as its speaker commemorating I
World Pcace Day on Sunday, Sep
tember 20 along with Baha’is in
260 countries and territories. The
local program, open to the pub
lic, will be presented at 4:30 P.
M, at St, Joseph's A M.E. Church,
sot FaycUeviile Street.
Mitchell will focus on the topic
"America’s Role in World Peace.”
He will discuss this nation’s role
of leadership in bringing into
being the era of peace, as prophe
sied in the Baha'i Writings.
He formerly held positions as
executive secretary of Maryknoll
Book Club, Maryknoll. N, T; as
sistant editor of Maryknoll Publi-
jy BoHft'iS t.atjc 5„
NCC Agency
Dept. Reveals
New Changes
W. A. Clement, CLU, Vice Presi
dent and Agency Director of the
North Carolina Mutual Life In
surance Company has announced
the appointment of Laurence W.
Reaves, Executive Assistant Man
ager of the North Philadelphia
District, and F. A. Ramseur. Man
ager of the Newark District to
new assignments.
Effective September 14, Reaves
will assume the duties of Mana
ger of the Newark. N. J. District,
and Ramseur will be assigned to
the Agency Director’* Staff.
Reaves began his career with
the Company as a Combination
Ageat on the Philadelphia (Pa.)
District in 1938. In 1945, after re
ceiving an honorable discharge
from the Army, Reaves was re
appointed as a Special Ordinary
Agent. He 'was appolated Asaistant
Manager, in 1980, Executiv«
Assistant Manager in 1982. He ku
been a consistent ^vlhiier of many
convention trips an4 sale* eon-
ventiona.
A graduate of LUTG, Rcavea has
been very active im ^e buitBess
and civic life of Philadelphia. He
is a member of tlje ^oud of Dl-
rectora of Mercy DouiaiMto Bospi-
tal and Chairman of it* Pwnonnel
Committee. ]fle is % ittember
of its Executlv* iCMmittee.
Reavea and hia tlw former
Miss Carolyn Wapiea'make
their home in Newai^N J,
. , See NCM ; ^