tenn Film Laboratories
7^0 CKatham Rd. -
Winston-Salem, N. C.
7/20/Comp.
ri~
fiN.C. Colleges To Play State's First Inferracial basketball Game
bak End ToSchool-Restaurant Bias In Craven Co.
*Kil|^IHe»>-Wli)fiity M. Y*utt«,
/r., (llr«cl«r «f Hi*
tl^al IMtin Lnffv*, grMts Prtfi-
UyAdon J«^wn m 1m tr-
jtlvaj.- T* addrvM th« G*ii*r»l A*-
ItHiMy Stttion «f th* MUL't ftrit
CilriiifuDlty Action Alkkmkly. M6re
tft«n ^O'rl0ht« 4*ad«^ ]|««r4,thi
ftnhltnft MWrtM conelwd-
Ml - wWi * »l£mM trilHitk t* th«
LtkyvVt ^cllr*t»r. . ;
i (iakiu^n 'Mid,.'"Than ,a(f«T .ificn
ar» ^yfnt tonlshf tJ prMtrv*
tbt fnaadoni of ut all,* and tha
l*tat you can do, until you ara
callad upon to 'give your lifa. Is
to glv« your support, f.’ve your
talent and giva your htart to
orgaiiizatlons IHta this, and Icadar-
•hip of man IHca Whitnay Young."
loard Of Iducation Turns
•s; ' ' ■ ,
•i^n Teachei: Iritegration
Release of 19
MisSv^Kiyers-
Shocks Nation
Legal Fight For
Racial Equality
Receives Boost
CHARLOTTE — The legal fight
for racial equality in North Caro
lina received another boost
week as NAACP T.egal Defense
Fund lawyers brouKht actions to
(lesesregate the jichmjl system of
Craven County and to compel a
I,illin(;ton restaurateur to open
his facilities to all.
Acting on behalf of 91 Craven
County youngsters, the Legal De
fense Fund asked the Federal Dis
trict Court in New Bern to order
school desegregation.
According to Director - Counsel
Jgck Greenberg of the Legal De
fense Fund, 91 1^ an unusually
high number of plaintiffs in a
school integration suit.
Following two unsuccessful at-
temps by Negro parent* In Craven
County to secure the . school
board’s voluntary compliaiice #l».h
the 1954 Supreme Court Decisioti.
legal assistance was requested.
Craven County thus becomes th»
19th North Carolina community la
which the Legal' Defense Fund
seeks equal educational opportuni
ties for Negroes,
The Legal Defense Fund com
plaint asks the court to end dual
■irhnni zones, pupil assignments
TTn5ii>T(^E
VOLUIV^E 41 — No. 50
DURHAM, N. C.—27702 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1964
RETURN REQUESTED
PRICE: 15 Cent.
Supreme Courl Upholds Puhlm
Accommodoiions Civil R, Law
Thc^ Du^hara Board 6f Educ«tlon
(londay turned d6\»n requests
^at the s^dint teaching program
(n local s^ho^s be integi-ated. A
North' Carolina ColWge student
fad . >rtHd,Cnt,
phw td begin, i^ae-.
|ic« tcachihgi niXt a^mester stib-
tnltted retiitelU tpr isslgnrrient tiv
Durham High School tnd Hillside
High School respectively.
, pr. John Gla$iot}, t board mem-.
i>cr,“ made a motion that the fe-..
qupsts be denief^' the^m^ition .'.vas
paswd with a 4-2 vote. Along With
GJassOJi, "also vfftitig for- tht* mo
tion were Mrs. Annie L. Bugg,
Gfdrgc Pvk^, and board chair-
hiahn' Hei-man Rhineiharf.
VI Ds, Theodorie Speigner, tlip only
N,(iflro board .member, and Cariie
Sessonis voted in favor ot the re-
quests.' (I
Afltr ii' suggestion from Parks
liikt' action on the teacher requ^ts
be' withheld pending decisions of
the Fourth Circuit U. S. Court of
'Apepals on the Durham integra
tion'suit, and cMtsideration by the
board’s Study CommitteiB on Inte
gration of Professional Personnel,
Speigner said, “I don’t think we
need any one judge or any three
judges to make us do what we
know is right; or just. ... To post
pone this operation is going to
make the cage worse ... 1 think
■we ought to faci Up to this now
and tell the judtfe what we're go
ing to do.” .
Questioning Speigner, Parks said,
“What are the educational advan
tages in the predominantly Whitt
school—if any?”
S|>eigikr answered, "The mere
opportunity to drink out of the
same fountain of liffe.”
“Is that in educational advan
tage?"
fdA
trtUiEti bt
based on race, teacher hiring and
assignments based on race, and
further construction designed to
perpetuate a segregated educatioft-
al system.
In a suit to enforce the Public
Accommodations section of the
1964 Civil Rights Act. Legal D*
fense lawyers asktd the Federal
Court in Raleigh to order the
opening of Wade's Restaurant in
Lillington to Negr6es. The refUu-
raBt is jitut^ oil IntersJjte
way 401.
In their complaint, the Rights
attorneys charged that on Novem
ber 9, Rev. B. B. Felder, Corne
lius Ledk, and Sarah M. McLean
were denied service in the main
portion of the restaurant. They
were told they could only he
[pressed shock at the release byl,p,.yej jn the back section of the
U, S., Commissioner Esther Carter) p^3blishment, rescrevd for Ne.
of 19 men arrested by the FBI on | groes. :
charges connected with the mur-l , na^cP U»1 ptftnSe *uiid it-
der of -three civil rights worlcflrstjjjir’ne^s ‘jhe two suittare Green !
ifi.Missi-ssippi |aat summer. The; Derrick Bell, and Michaen
preliminary hearing '.vas being Meltsner of New York; Conrad 0,
held in Meridian. j pgg^son and W. G. Pearson II of
Dlirham; Reginald L, Frazier of
I Nt'v Bern; and J. LeVonne Cham-
berii of Charlotte.
NEW YORK—Roy Wilkins, exe
cutive director of the National As-
sOciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, Thurs., Dec 10,
“We are deeply shocked,"
See SHOCK, 2A
“Yes,” saW
logii;airy, fir^i^y
“D» yoo“!^
any t instrvnfA^
asked Parks,
In inswf)
See
ligner, “psycho-
#>«
lhat there ar*
. advantages?”
l^eigner said,
ON, 2A
A testlmonal service honoring
the Rev. James A. Ste'^art on his
42nd anniversary as pastor ol
White Oak Baptist Church will be
held at the church Sunday, De
cember 20, at 7:30 p.m.
The sermon for the occasion
will be presented by Rey. Leon
White, pastor of the Christian
Chapel Church. His chQir and con.
gregation will accompany him to
White Oak for the occasion.
Other churches that will parti
cipate in Rev. Stewart's anniver
sary celebration are Mt. Zion Bap
tlst Church of Wake County and
New Hill Baptist Church.
Rev. Stewart is t>ne of Durham’s
most beloved and highly. respect
ed ministers. During the week he
has received congratulations from
his many friends and admirers for
his long years of service at White
Oak. '
isis^ipi^i Bonds, NAACP
eihtidnt Houses, Banks
NEW YOBK-j-The National As
sociation fen* ^tm Advancement of
! Colored Peoplct 'haA called -upon
investment houses, baniclng iii^i-^
tuiions, pompabifes and
pension' fuildtr (*w decline to pdr-
ticipate” in bidding on thri^ Mis-
sippl bond issuea tdtaling $82,690,•
000. i' ,i‘
I 'f
'** In a metvOfindUni dlspttcHed
Friday, Dec-. 11, td 00 l^adUig fltt-
ancial instftliili^ In New Yt>rk;
City, NAAC!? _ BxttUtlvt Mtector
Rdy Wilkins a^d ‘.^Itbhbidhig of
bliU (rQitt foUbWiii^ issues:'
Pearl River Water' Supply Dis
trict, $24,650,000 revenue refund
ing bond^ for bidding, Dec. 15:
and two school bond issues, gen
eral Obligations of the state, total
ing $8,000,000 for bidding, Dec. 16.
.. lieake And .,&!ott counties,, two
of the five in tbe Pearl River Vai-
Wy district, border NHhoba Coun
ty .whfre three civil rights woric-
trs were lynched Ittt June near
Phiiadelphiai 'the evuaty lett.
• !.
“Tbe brutal diac|r)»^«tlpn•vilttt.
Set PQHP9. ilk.
Exercisinf Right of a Free Press
W'l' hiivf reci'iitly received throujrh tnc I’ost Office two
li'tti''r,s jiiidie.sst'd to the editor of the Carolina Times for
whicii we liavc iiuthinj; hut the hif{hcst contempt. One
of the li'ttiT.s suppO.si'd to have come from a mcinhep of
the facidtv of .\. C'. College, one 'i'iionias .Mason, alteijipt-
cd to defend the present administration I'f N’Ct. l^jiun
invi'stif^ation, however, we fiinl that there is Jio [>etson
on the XCC faculiv iiy such a name. 'I'o ald iuMill t(j
injury, tlu' culprit wl'.o wrote the letter attempted to
hide iill trace of his or her identity by {johix a/il tiie
way ti> HillslM)ft» It* mail it.
We would like f(ir it to be understood liere ami now
tliat l)elicvinf>: in and e.xe^cisiiifr the rijjht of a free press
for ourselves, we heartily e.\tenl that same rifjht to the
lumihlest fellow citizen. These columns stand, therefore,
eternally !ivailal)le and ready for any and all persons to
use as tluy see fit. so li>ti|; as it is tlone objectively and
without tnalice. even tliouHih the same might be used fi‘>4'
or a.i;ainst a nicnil)er of onr own staff or against a iH’r-
son or persons outside of our staff.
Tile second letter, received this week, was wVittcd and
mailed in Kaieigli in the form of an attack on the presi
dent of Siiaw L'niversity. To add insult to injury in
this particular case, the same was not cvcti sifftted. N'ecd-
less to say, ix)ih of the al)ovc .mentioned letters were
consifi^ned to the wastebasket.
]‘'inally, we would like to add that the Cal’olina limes
is not interested in, tnijai^ed in or partakers of personal
animosity or malice against the pri-sileiU of N. C. Col
lege, .‘ihaw L'niveristy or any other institution, educa
tional ol' (itherwise. 'I'he sacred and high calling of a
true journalist transcends -suh a coprsc and any one wlio
answers such a calling should Hot be inti'Vest-el n sland
er or malicious attacks, fcsjx‘ciallj' when they are originat-
inoral cpurage as to
|» jiMfeotpi* sutjijt 4i-t>r one using a ficti-
"A*
IN APPRECIATION—I. O. Funder- of Durham's leading merchants is beard members for their long
bur®, president of the Durham I now confined to his home on ac-1 years of service. Those in the pie-
Buslnasi and Professional Chain | of illness. Tha pres^entatlon was ture from left to rifiit are: J. C.
and Cashier of the Mechanics and | made during the annual banquet
Farmers Bank, is shown present- | of the Chain held here recently at
Ing a certificate of appreciation 1 the W. D. Hi.I Recreation Center,
to Mrs. Charlie Jackson for her ! The bottom photo shows certifi-
sutband's Ion', years of scrvice as ' cites of apprtciation being pxe-
chairman of the Chain's Bar.quet sented
Committee. Jackson who is one
to the Chain's original j Kell^ Bryant.
N. c. colle(;e and
High Point College
WINSTON-SAI.EM—North Caro
lina College and Ili!;li l’oint«Col-
lege of High Point will niret in
ba.sketball game in the N. C. Clas
sic Tournament Friday, Dec. ^8
In Winston-Salem Coliseum, hark
ing the fir.st time a predominant
ly Negro and a predominantly j,
white school have been cage op-^ Carolina Col-
ponents in the state's history. suffered a mild heart at-
Winston-Salem State Collcue will {gp|; gunday and is- presently con-
face Rockhurst College, champion
team of the NAIA, on I'riday. On
Saturday North Carolina College
■jvill meet Winston Salem, and
High Point and Hockhur.st will
also be opponents on that night.
Both Winston-SalcMi and High
Point are undefeated with 4-0
records. The Winston-Salem Hams
hivie just successfully defended
their Georgia Invitational Crown
by defeating on successive nights
Jackson State College, .laekson,
Miss., the 1964 Southwestern Ath-
Itlc Conference Champions: and
the tenth ranked A. I'nd T. Ag-
jies, last year's CIAA ch.impions.
NCC now has a 3-3 record. It’s
See TOURNAMENT, 2A
fined to Durham’s Lincoln Hospi
tal. His condition is said to be
"improving."
Riddick, often referred to as the
■'Dean or CIAA Coaches, ’ was
named “Coach of the Year” by
the Norfolk Journal and Guide in
1945 and was voted the CIAA
“Coach of the 'Year” in 10R3, Earl
ier in his career, he served as
head football coach at Durham’s
Hillside High School and from
l!)35,to 1^45 the Hillside Hornets
amassed a phenomenal won-lost
record of 82-53.
' During his ’f,vchty years at The
helm- at North Carolina College,
beginning in 1945, Riddick’s teams
' . Sti RIDDICK, 2A .
w.\s)ii.N(U'o\ . I '.u'
('(;urt, in a Mnriki> ri:';nv
nnanimoLisI.v ll!,' > lui:.
of the public ai'i-ni.iM" ,
tion of the Civil Hi '• i i"' '
went into elfeit l.rt ,,’ul ,
Tlu> public aci'iiihn; :,l!i I'.-
lion, till' mo.-it ccii>fcr. i a! i-
hr.v's pi Dvisioii.-.. 1
restaurants.- ni(il;d'-, ■!
facilities v.'liiiM foKl
ni»\e in inti'v.1 .'.tc
all I'accs \vi»h()iit hia-.
In a divided di'ci.-i^'i' " '
ju-.lices Inr aiul lour .i*_'aii
eoui't al.'U ih-Jari'ii Dial '■
he rctri^ii'liM'. fliii^ reijuiri
dismissal of charges :.nif re
f'nie
M
,IM -f
Scarborough, III, who stood in;
for his father, J. C. Scarborough, |
Jr.; David Gilmroe, M. H. Thomp |
sen. Rev. Miles M. Fisher, J. M.
Schcolcr, Dr. W. A. Cleland and
NCC Grid I'lentor, Herpn Riddjck
Suffers lieart Attack Sunday
ilDOICK
of convictions ai;a!M''l c: ji
deinoiistI'ators''niadi- h'".i:rc t."
the hill hecanie law. Sniiie o.Ol'O
cases will he anc(,'t'(l.
Tft^eiuni earlier HiiluOd a dis-
'tricf court's jii(k’mrnt a.i^ain.sl Ihc
Heart of Atlanta .M'Hcirs.c-halli'n:','’
of the anti'discrimiiiartiry parts i«f
the law.
Morton ItolU'ston. .Ir.. an .MlaiK
ta attorney and ottit'ial cl tlr.?
motel wlwi arvicd lii-^ case lier'j
Oct. 5. contended:
■'I'll'' fact that .i''r in-
Kiln'd in lliis i.ssik' IS pii.'cl.v i 1-
cidert.d Tlie rnii(lanienlal is,,Tic is
wluther Con^n'c-s has t'le ri"ht
to take a'.vay fnmi a privfitc liiisi-
ncss concern tiu' o«iU‘i's clioiio
of niiiniii'.; I»s rinii as lu' wislie.i
and 'cho)sinn his l ustDtiier.v"
On behalf ol the cuiir!. Jus! lie
'rmii Clark, who un.li' the court's
ojiiiiioM said i'l di.sagn'cm' tit:
'■'riie power id' i'iiii'.:ress to
pi'oinote iHtcr.state comir.orci' .i' i
includes the power to re”i.i .ti'
the'local iiuvidents thereof.' iticiml-
ing local activities in liotli I'h'' '
state of ori.Lihi and di'stiiiatiu:i.
which iniglit have a suhsl.ait'al
;gul liarniful clfect upon t^al
conimercc.
“One need only examine the
Sec COURT, i;.\
High Court Ends
Interracial Sex
Ban In Florida
WASIIINGTO.N' — The T ^ iiu-
preme Court said tliis week Ih-it
Florida caiinot i|KiWe it a ci: '-!'
for .Negroes and wlutes who are
tiof' iiKti'i'ii’d to occupy the same
room at night.
This riding came si.\ vveeU.i
,4'tw atlor«e.vs -of t-Lu;-Jsl^A.L;i.’..J-t..-.
gal ni'fense Kiind ar'jiicd Iv lorf
the high court in hehalt ol a .Mi ii”.i
Ikiich couple—Mi.ss t'onnie 1,'nlf.
man. white and Dewiy NULuu.^jIi-
lin. \egro.
The couple Were arrested ai:d
ci.nvioled under a Florida law tlial
made it a eiiime for a “Negro man
and while woman . . . '.vho are not
married to each other ttoi . . .
hahititiially live in and occupy in
the night time the same room."
We find notiling,' wrote Jiis-
lice jjyron l>. White in the Court’s
unanimous decision, “v^hich make;;
it es.sential to punish promi.scuity
by one racial group and not that
of another.
"There is no s'jg'jestion that a
white person anl a Negro arc an\
more likely habitually to occupy
the same room together than t!ie
white or the Negro couple or li
etij^age in illicit intercourse il they
do,'’ he said.
Jack Greenberg, director cmm
scl of the NAACP Legal Dcfcny
Fund commented that the s6
resolution adopted hy 2,8(l() dWe-
ga4es to the Aiwociation's anmjal
convention in Washington, D. C„
last June. The resolution ur,"ed
action by the Association, its
S;t 5CX BAND, 2A