North Carolina Newspapers

f'iann Film Laboratories 7^0 Cbatham Rd, Starts Suit To Unseat 21 Southern Congressmen Vote Denial Question to Be Raised by Attys. WASHINGTON — An estimated 21 southern Congressmen will lose their jobs if Section 2 of the 14th Amendment of the U. S. Consti tution is enforced, NAACP Legal Defense Fund attorneys told the U. S. District Court here last week. iT Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges and Director the Bu reau of Census, Richard M. Scam- mon are defendants in this case which seeks to protect voting rights. Legal Defense Fund attorneys la.st week asked' the District Court to deny the defendants' motion to dismiss. Dr. Abram J. Jaffa, director of the Manpower and Population Pro gram at Columbia University’s Bu reau of Applied Social Research, told the Court that it is possible to enforce Section 2. Since the Bureau of Census ha? never tried to enforce Section 2 under modern conditions. Dr. Jaf- fe stated in an affidavit, it would be. “premature antf unrealistic’’ to conclude that the Bureau could not accurately measure denial and •Jjrld gment of the riaht to vote. Section 2 of the 14th Amend ment provides that: “When the right to vote . . ^.is denied to any of the male inhabi tants of such state, being 21 years of age . . . the basis for repre sentation (in Congress) therein shall be reduced In proportion yhieh the number of »uch male VOLUME 41 — No. 47 DURHAM, N. C—27702 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1964 RETURN REQUESTED PRICE: IS Cents NAACP Desegreg^es McComb As Townspeople Look On Racial Barriers Lifted at Several citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of aae in such state.” Current interpretation includes women citizens. The 14th Amendent was ratified in 1869 and an 1872 act of Con- pfeSs tails for its implementation. The Bureau of Census attempted to comply by collecting statistics of denial and abridgment of the right to vote during the Census of 1670. But, the Cgnititutional clause bas been ignored ever since. ' the Legal Defense Fund ulti mately “seek* a declaration of the defendants’ duty to comply with Section 2 when they compile, compute, prepare and transmit the decenial apportionment of Representatives tn Congress. Establislinients McCOMB, Miss. — Twenty Ne groes, led by state and local lead ers of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo ple, quietly desegregated two ho tels, a movie theater, restaurants and drug store lunch counters here, Wednesday, Nov. 18. This .vas the second successful NAACP venture in desegregating public accommodations in Missis- sippL Last July, immediately aft«r passage of the Civil ffights Act. a .■special committee of the NAACP Board of Directors broke long standing racial harriers in restau- fiwtn and hotels in Jaakson, Biloxi, A. & T. and NCC ! CO-OP FINANCING I RAISES STANDARD 01 EDUCATION Iii Trflditional Oirector of Anti- WASHINGTON — Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz last week announced the appointment of Jack Howard as director of the newly formed Neighborhood Youth Corps. The Corps is a major part of the Nation’s Arar-on-poverty. In his new post, Howard will di rect arrangements for Federal contracts with local NYC sponsors —public and private nonprofit agencies—who will provide young men and women between ages 16 and 22 with jobs, supervision, counseling and training. Howard, 40, a foi-mer newspa perman, bring a broad background of government experience to his new war-on-poverty position. As special assistant to the Un der Secretary rtf Labor, he was active in the planning and opera tion of the Labor Department’s Manpower Administration in its Urst year. He aUn played a m»)nr rnie in th! e«tablishm'^pt in 1983 of the Department of l*bor's Apprentice ship Information Centers which are designed to Inrrfiofp youth em ployment opportunities. Howard first c»me to Washing ton in 10H7 on a ape year Congres sional Fellowship awarded bv the American PoIitlc|I Science »As.so- elatton.i ' ',\V Mnrtlp on thi^Ktellowshlp. he studied the ortfaiiHiition and tunc tioning of the and served briefly 4n th» staff of Senator H. M. Jdckson (D*Wash.). In 1880, the NYC director becan .a two-year tenure a» chief investi gator fdr the Houae Government Information Subcommittee. ' Be|o,re entering government work, Woward was labor editor of the San ;franfi*«o Chronicle (1IMS7- Sfi) andi a reporter for the Spring field (Ohio) Da|»v Npwf n»4»-80). He has contributed artlciet to many pubHcaHons, Including The See ANVi-POVIRtV, page 2A r.aurel. Meridian and Gulfport, Other tests are planned for addi tional Mississippi cities. In McCnmb. white townspeople watched silently as the group en tered the establishments in a test of law. All were served without incident. A force.of state pa trolmen and 20 FBI agents joined local.police in watching over the group. nese^resation of the facilities followed publication of a statement signed by 650 leading McComb residents ■ calling for re-establish- ent of order and respect for law. Charles Evers. NAACP Missis sippi field director, '^ho headed the group, noted that Ne2ro lead ers had had .severar meetings with leaders of the white community rooarHine desesregation prior to formiilation and release of the statoment, Riisfnf^ss piae'es desegregated in, rlud'^rl the liineh counter in Wool- 'vorth’s and dining and rooming facilitie-s in the Continental Hotel and Holiday Inn Motel. T'sting of this town of 14,000 residents, which has bc>n the ■sceno of frequent bombings and burnings in Ne?ro neighborhoods o See MeCOMB, page 2A Freshman is A Dne Man Band' At A&T College GREENSBORO—A freshman stu dent who this fall joined the fam ed A. and T, College Marching Band is just about a “one-man band,” himself. One of the most versatile musi cians to affiliate with the band in recent-iiears, jGeorge Bishop, Jr., perforins well bn at least six in- strumeiits. He plays the tenor sax ophone or the baritone in the marching band; the ba.sson in the symphony band; will concentrate on the organ and piano as a music major, and picks the electric bass guitar for fun. He is a native of Asheville, the son of Mr. and Mr's. George Bish op, Sr., of that city and brought with him to A. and T. a raft of clippings about his exploits in the music world. Last summer he won fir.st place in a county-'vide talent conte.st (for Buncombe County), sponsored hv the Rotary Club. He heat out a big list of comnetitors which cov- See BAND, page 2A NEW YORK—America’s private-1 ly-finariced southern Negro col leges are contributing an increas ing niimbcr of outstanding nienj arid women to society, reports a j December Header's Digest article. | “Negro Colleges: Their Product ' and Promise.’’ Author James Daniel notes that | some 70 of these colleges today have an enrollment of about 40,-1 000 students. Among their grad uates have been Jistinguis^ed Ne groes as cducator Booker T. Wash ington, scholar W E B. DirBois, author James Weldqn Johnson, singer Roland Hayes. Judge Thur- good Marshall a-nd the Rev. Mar tin Luther King, 1964 ‘Ainner of the Nobel Peace Prize For the past twenty years fund raising for 32 of the Negro schools has been carried on cooperatively by the United, Negro College Fund, founded by Dr, Fred Patterson, then President of Alabama’s fam ed Tiiskegee Institute, To date the Fund has collected 46 million dol lars for its member colleges, con tributing to each a maximum ten percent of expenses, Usin" an incentive method un- He-- which the more an individual c'-'le^e raise&^internally the larger the share it gets from gifts raised b" the UNCF, the Fund has stim- "'ited substantial increases in f'lancial support by Negroes for ’'’''•'ro colleges. Last year Negro 'ndividuals and institutions con tributed $1,500,000 to the colleges, A number of other U, S, college "roups have ^copied the Fund's innovation of joint financing, tho Dl9P,st notes. Academic standards among Ne gro colleges are rising rapidly, the article states; graduates find ready admission to top graduate schools and are welcomed by many large national corporations. The colleges began just after the Civil War when New England See STANDARDS, page ^A Turkey Day Tilt Durham County Stadium will be the site for the annual Carolina Classic bi't'.veen the North Caro lina College Eagles and the North Carolina A. and T. College Aggies Thursday afternoon. A capacity crowd of about 10,000 spectators is expected for the 1:30 kickoff. This will be the final regular sea.son game for bot^ clubs for 1964. A and T, can assure_Usell of the ClAA visitation champion ship with a win Thursday, but Coach Herman Riddick’s chargers would like nothing better thap a over the Gate City boys. The Aggies are leading the MRS, LEMARQUIS DEJARMON^ hcrr?, involving pine cones and Nort.'i Carolina College Instructor,' needles, leaves, styrofoam, tooth will conduct a YWCA Christmas ' picks, pai affin, etc., will be dem- Workshop, Thursday, December 3, i onstrated. 8:00 P.M., at E. D. Mickle Com- 1 Y-Teen AdvisJrs look on as Pro- munlty Center. An array of simple, I r,-am Director discuss Research but beautiful decorjiions for the I Material; Lett to right are: Miss D. AMERICAN ( IVIL LIBERTIES UNION Brinkley, Mrs. A. E. Spears, Mrs. A. Bennentt, Miss A. Fairley, Miss W. Joyer, Miss Viola High. Miss N. Jones and Miss Easter Jdmes, Teen-age Prcgram Director. Any one desiring information may call 684-0191. Joins Attack On Vote Discrimination In Miss. NEW YORK — TliL- .\merican Civil Lilierlics I'nion will JdIm tiu' EFFORTS BEING MADE TO NAME Congressman Conyers^ Jr. To House Judiciary WASHINGTON, D. C.—Snow F. Grigsby, Editor, The Postal Alli ance, official publication of the National Alliance of Postal Em ployees, disclosed this week in a press conference in Detroit, that th^re is maovement to have the nation’s sixth Negro Congressman, Attorney John Conyers, Jr., of De troit and Michigan’s First Congres sional District, appointed to the very important House Judiciary Committee as his committee as signment in the 89th session of Congress. Grigsby stated, “I have met and discussed this matter 'Arlth the leaders of the Democratic Party, the Con-Jressman-Elect, the labor mo^'ement and the ministry in Detroit regarding the possibilities. “W* think that the nation and the Congress would benefit by this kind of assignment. "There has never been a Negro Congressman on the Judiciary Committee in the history of the Congress and Conyers is particu larly well qualified in that he has not only been a practicing attorn ey, but that he has also served in a judicial capacity as a Referee in the V/orkmens Compensation Department. “Conyers was appointed Referee by former Michigan Governor John B. Swainson. where he served ia ■i iuU-tlme capacity prior to tub mitting his resignation to bccomc a candidate for Congress.” Grigsby continued, “We are all ’nopeful that Conyers receives a Judiciary Committee assignment, and I know personally, that he is eager to serve on this committee.” Grigsby concluded, “At the com mencement of the 89th Congress, there will be no Michigan mem bers on the Judiciary Committee, Conyers election tothe Congress marks the first time that any state has elected two Negro Congress men sin Reconstruction. A. & T. College Continues Drive For ClAA Crown HAMPTON, Virginia — nie A. and T. College Aggies (5-0-1) took .s firmer grip on first place in the ClAA standings by crushing the first division Virginia State College Trojans 34-6 in Greens boro last Saturday. The North Car olina Eagles remain the only stumbling block to a champion- shij). Morgan State College (7-1-0) remaining in the thick of the bat tle by beating Shaw 40-7. in the thick of the battle by beat- See AOOIES, page 2A Hawley Teachers Attend Foreign Language l^eet OXFORD—Mrs. V. F. Brooks and Mrs. R. W. Hedgepeth, French teachers of the G. C. Hawley High School, recently attended the N. State Foreign Language Con ference held at the Jack Tar Ho tel in Winston-Salem. The teachers expressed the fact 'hat they were intrigued by the "ery rich program they experi- nced. The highlights included an "pening address by Dr. Nelson Brooks, Professor ofT^rench, Mas- *'>r of Arts in Teaching Program, Yale University, who used as his theme: “Language Learning: A New Concept and a New Ap proach.” The conference clo.scd with dem- on.strations from French classes from high schools in High Point and Greensboro respectively. Each of the schools used the theme, “Learning French the Modern Way.” Many very helpful hints for the teaching of French were given throughout the conference, and it WJ6 magnificently tnjo;td by aL league with a 5-0-i w'ork.sheel in the loop and a 5-31 overall mark. A. and T.. with a Dickinson rating of 25.42. must defeat the Eagles in the Turkey Bowl to remain on top. The nearest challenger to the Aggies for the cro-«n is Mor gan State College. NCC will carry a * 4-4 overall mark into the game. In the con ference the Durhamites stand 2-4 A win for NCC would give Rid dick another winning season, Rid dick. the‘"Deah of ClAA Coach es," has experienced only one los ing year in the 19 years he has h»en pieskin boss at NCC. The Eagles finished with a 2-7 record in 1947. however, in 1949 and 1959. NCC compiled idential 4-4 1 records. Coach Bert Piggott’s Gate City rharaers wilU. hi? ruled a slight favorite in the Turkey Bowl con test. But when these two team.s me»t, anything can hannen. Pre dictions. records, or statistics can- j not be used as a yardstick to | I measure the outcome of the game. | I Last Thanksgiving in Greens-1 boro. 'A'ith the conference cham-, I pionship at stake, NCC walked off I with a 6-0 win and the ClAA title, i thanks to a 29 yard scoring aerial from Aaron Martin, now a de-1 fensive hack for the Los Angele.s i Kams, to Robert Evans. j Awards Given to Heads of Retired Persons Ass'n WASHINGTON—The American A.ssociation of Homes for the Ag ing (.AAHA) on Nov. 11 presented annual Awards of Honor to Dr. Ethel P. Andrus of Ojai, Calif., 79-year-old founder and president of the American Association of Retired Persons; Hobart C. Jack son, administrator of the Stephen Smith Home for the Aged. Phila delphia, and Dr. Julius Weil, exe cutive director of the Motefiore Home, Cleveland Heights, Ohio. The awards were presented at the AAHA’s Third Annual Meeting and Conference at the Statler-Hil- ton Hotel by Mrs. Jean Wallace Carey, chairman of the associa tion’s Award of honor committee, and staff associate for aging. Bu reau of Social Services of the Com munity Service Society, New York City. Dr, Andrus, a pioneer In devel oping low-coiit accident and health insurance for retired person.*!, or ganized t h e National Retired Teachers Association in 1947 fol lowing a career as teacher and high school principal. Jackson is president of the Pennsylvania Association of Homes for the Aging, chairman of the Governor’s Advisory Committee, Office for |he Aging, and of the Committee on Aging of the Na tional Urban League. A cum laude graduate of Morehouse College, ilts .HETIREn i.'u’t 2A natory Mi.‘.si,vsippl \utiiv-; l.i\vs. Raising a broad range of consti tutional issues, the A{;LU will file a friend-of-thecourt brief in the U.S. Sii|)vome C'ourt supporting arguments made by llu’ Dcp;irt- ment of Justice in a suit again.sl the State of Mississi|)'pi. the niein- hers of t!ie State Hoard of Election Commissioners, and six county voter registrars. At stake, the ACl-U. ^contends, are Missi.ssii>pi statutes which ' iiitcntiiinally dis criminate on the groumis of race and implement Mississippi's long standing legislative policy of dis enfranchising Negroes.” The group of ACl.U lawyers wlio prepared tiie brief was headed Ijy fiunier IF. S. Attorney Ceneral Franci."; Hiddle. The ACI.U must iirst receive court permission to liiive its lirief accepti'd in the case, liowevcr, s'-nce the Stale of Missi.ssippi has objected to ACl.U participation. In its .ittack on the voting laws, the civil liberties organization said that wliile "in otiier circum stances" tile state Ians might be defended as "valid nu’asures to prilled the electorate.” to de.scrilit the present laws as such is "ol)vi- a shani " was written by Kenneth D. Kem per. a student at Columbia Law : School. A KiO page apjiendix to tlie AtXU brief offered a historical survey of voting laws in Missis- sip|)i since the Reconstruction era, in wliich it pointed to the openly disci'iuiinatory intentions served !)V their enactment. The survey T li e brief levelled specific eliar:-;es against three sccti(m,i of the .Mississippi Constitution: tlie literacy and con.stitutional inter pretation requLl'ement, the "good m oral ®haracter'’ qualification, : and tlie poll tax. Two Greensboro Men Are Honored By National Greek Letter Fratenity CliEENSHOHO — Two Greens boro men were last week honored by a national Greek letter fratcr nity, Di', George (', Simkins, .Ir,, a local dentist, was cited as "Citizen of the Year,” and Ellis K, Corbett, director, public information serv ices at A. and T. College, received the "Omega Man of Year!' Award. The a'.vards were pre.sented at the .'\wards Dinner, sponsored by the Greensboro Mu Psi and Tau Omega Chapters of 'the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. The affair was lield l:ist Saturday evening at tlie O'Uenry Hotel. I Dr. Simkins was honored for his work, during tlie past year in the field of human rights, with spo- I c:;d referj'nce to llie litigation lo i remove segregation from local hos pitals, He has served as president in the local chapter of the NAACP since 1959,. and a member of the (Ireensboro Comniission on Human itehitlons, Corliett, who had .served as edi tor of the OHACLE. official publi cation of the Fraternity, for thfi past 15 years and who in August was elevated to first vice grand liasih'us, the sccoiul position in command, of the 21,000 member organization, was Cited for his scrvicc to tlie organization over a long period of years, lioth were presented plaques by Dr (Jeorge C. Ko}al, dean of tlie Graduate School at A, and T, (Col lege, and hasileus of the local Tau Omega chapter. Or. hand for the event 'was Geo. E. Meares, Brooklyn, N, Y,, pro- l)a(ion officer and grand hasileus of the Kraternity, lie spoke at the closing .session of the two-day oh- sirvance of National Achievement, a national project of the organi zation, on Sunday morning, at tiie St, James Presbyterian Chureli, Mcarcs, a former Greensboro See AWARDS, page 2A Local Girl Crowned "Miss SNEA' MISS RITA ALSTON, freshman at i SNEA. She It the daur^ter of Mr. Wlniton-SaUm State College, it and Mrt. Hodgetty Alston of Dur- thown with Piretldent K. R. WII-1 hem.' Sh« attended Allen High Han’* aft!!' .M.i^'. • Swh""* in A'.hiviM*.. t Chain Letter Warning About Gov't Issues WASHINGTON — Chain letter schemes involving U. S. Savings Bonds are in violation of Federal regulations and persons participat ing in them are subject to possi ble criminal prosecution. This warning came this week from W. P. John.son, Savings Bonds Direc tor for North Carolina, in the facc of a reappearance of Savings Bonds chain letters in North Caro lina, The first such scheme was re ported as early as 1941. the year Series E,. Bonds were born. Sub- .sequent revivals of the idea have resulted in the Treasury in structing ail banks and ott)cr is suing agents to refuse to sell Sav ing Bonds in cases where they know, or have reason to tMlievo, that the Bonds will be juwd in any type of chain letter 'scheme. This applies whether or not Mio S-e CHAIN LITTBK, 24,^